Job 9:3
If he delights to strive with Him—He does not answer him one of a thousand.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2“Truly I have known that [it is] so, || But how is man righteous with God?
4Wise in heart and strong in power—Who has hardened toward Him and is at peace?
Cross References
Job 9:20If I am righteous, my mouth declares me wicked; [If] I am perfect, it declares me perverse.
Job 10:2I say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [with] me.
Job 31:35Who gives to me a hearing? Behold, my mark. The Mighty One answers me, || And my adversary has written a bill.
Job 34:14If He sets His heart on him, || [If] He gathers His Spirit and His breath to Himself,
Job 40:2“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
Psalms 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me, || My iniquities have overtaken me, || And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, || And my heart has 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 →