Job 9:3
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Job 31:35oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
Job 34:14If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
Job 40:2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
Psalms 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed 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 →