Job 9:2
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
In Context
3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
Cross References
Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
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 →