Job 9:3 · KJV
“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”
— Job 9:3
I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}
{He is} wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened {himself} against him, and hath prospered?
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?
5Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Cross References
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct {him}? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Psalms 40:12
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. {falleth: Heb. forsaketh}
Job 31:35-37
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed {it}, Why hast thou made me thus? {repliest...: or, answerest again, or, disputest with God?}
Job 23:3-7
Oh that I knew where I might find him! {that} I might come {even} to his seat!
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.