Job 9:3
If he is pleased to contend with him,he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
New Heart 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?
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me.Though I am blameless, it shall 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 →