Job 9:3
If he choose to contend with him, He cannot answer him to one charge of a thousand.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2Of a truth, I know that it is so: For how can man be just before God?
4He is excellent in wisdom, mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I were upright, yet must my own mouth condemn me; Though I were innocent, He would prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with me!
Job 31:35O that there were one who would hear me! Behold my signature! let the Almighty answer me. And let mine adversary write down his charge!
Job 34:14Should he set his heart against man, Should he take back his spirit and his breath,
Job 40:2Will the censurer of the Almighty contend with him? Will the reprover of God answer?
Psalms 40:12For evils without number have encompassed me; My iniquities have overtaken me; I cannot see the end of them; They are more than the hairs of my head, And my heart dieth within 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 →