Job 9:2
Verily I know, that it is so, and that a man comparisoned to God shall not be made just. (Truly I know, that this is so, and that a man shall not be seen as just, when compared to God.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
In Context
Cross References
Job 4:17Whether a man shall be made just in comparison of God? either a man shall be cleaner than his Maker? ( And it said, Can anyone be seen as righteous in comparison to God? or is anyone purer than his Maker?)
Job 25:4Whether a man comparisoned to God may be justified, either a man born of a woman may appear clean? (Can a man be justified when compared to God, or can a man born of a woman ever be pure, or innocent?)
Job 32:2And Elihu, the son of Barachel (the) Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was wroth, and had indignation; and he was wroth against Job, for he said himself to be just before God, (or and he was angry against Job, for he had said himself to be righteous before God).
Job 34:5For Job said, I am just, and God hath turned my justness upside down. (For Job said, I am innocent, but God hath turned my justice, or my sentence, upside down.)
Psalms 143:2And enter thou not into doom with thy servant; for each man living shall not be made just in thy sight. (And enter thou not into the judgement of thy servant; for no one living can be made right, or justified, before thee.)
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 →