Job 9:3
If he were desirous to enter into a contest with him, he could not give him one answer out of a thousand.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2Truly I know that it is so: and how could a mortal be righteous before God?
Cross References
Job 9:20If I were righteous even, my own mouth would condemn me: were I innocent, it would still prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; let me know for what cause thou contendest against me.
Job 31:35Oh who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have written,—
Job 34:14If he were to set his heart upon man, he would gather unto himself his spirit and his breath:
Job 40:2Will he that contendeth with the Almighty yet find fault? him that reproveth God answer this.
Psalms 40:12(40:13) For evils without number have compassed me about; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see: they are more numerous than the hairs of my head; and my courage hath forsaken me.
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 →