Job 9:2 · KJV
“I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}”
— Job 9:2
Then Job answered and said,
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9 — Context
Then Job answered and said,
2I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}
3If 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?
Cross References
Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?
Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law {is} the knowledge of sin.
Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Job 34:5
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Job 14:3-4
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?