Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
In Context
2I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Cross References
Job 9:20If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: if I say , I am perfect, that also will prove me perverse.
Job 10:2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me.
Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is , that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
Job 34:14If he should set his heart upon man, if he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath;
Job 40:2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him ? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Psalms 40:12For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth 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 →