Job 9:3
For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?
4For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?
Cross References
Job 9:20For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
Job 10:2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
Job 31:35(Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against any one,
Job 34:14For if he would confine, and restrain his spirit with himself;
Job 40:2Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
Psalms 40:12But you did help me because of my innocence, and have established me before you for ever. 1
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 →