Job 9:3
If you wanted to argue with God, God could ask a thousand questions that no one could answer.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2“Yes, I know all that! But how can anyone be right before God?
4God is so wise and so powerful that no one could challenge him and win.
Cross References
Job 9:20Even though I am right, my own mouth would condemn me; even though I am innocent, he would prove me wrong.
Job 10:2I will tell God, “Don't just condemn me—tell me what you have against me.
Job 31:35Why won't anyone listen to what I'm saying! I'm signing my name to endorse everything I've said. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write down what he is charging me with.
Job 34:14If he were to withdraw his spirit, if he were to take back his breath,
Job 40:2“Are you still going to fight with the Almighty and try to set him straight? Anyone who argues with God must give some answers.”
Psalms 40:12For I'm experiencing so many problems—I can't even count them! My sins have piled up so high I can't see over them. They're more than the number of hairs on my head! I feel like giving up!
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →