Job 9:3
For if he would enter into judgment with him, 1 God would not hearken to him, 1 So that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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: 1 For how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord? 1
4For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: 1 Who has hardened himself against him and endured? 1
Cross References
Job 9:20For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: 1 And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse. 1
Job 10:2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; 1 And wherefore hast thou thus judged me? 1
Job 31:35(Oh that I had a hearer), 1 And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; 1 And as to the written charge which I had against anyone, 1
Job 34:14For if he would confine, 1 And restrain his spirit with himself; 1
Job 40:2Will anyone pervert judgment with the Mighty One? 1 And he that reproves God, let him return it for answer. 1
Psalms 40:12By this I know that thou hast delighted in me, 1 Because mine enemy shall not rejoice over me. 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 →