Job 9:2
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
World English 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 he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
Cross References
Job 4:17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 34:5For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.
Psalms 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
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 →