Job 9:3
If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
4Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!
Cross References
Job 9:20If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,—I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.
Job 10:2I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me!
Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!
Job 34:14If he should set against him his heart, His spirit and his inspiration, unto himself he should withdraw.
Job 40:2Shall a reprover contend, with the Almighty? He that disputeth with GOD, let him answer it!
Psalms 40:12For there have closed in upon me, misfortunes beyond number, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see, They have become more than the hairs of my head, And, my courage, hath forsaken 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 →