Job 9:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֭מְנָם יָדַ֣עְתִּי כִי־כֵ֑ן וּמַה־יִּצְדַּ֖ק אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עִם־אֵֽל׃

Transliteration

ʾāmnām yādaʿtî kî-kēn û-mah-yiṣdaq ʾĕnôš ʿim-ʾēl

Grammar Details

*ʾāmnām*: adverb - truly, indeed
*yādaʿtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I know/have known
*kî-kēn*: conjunction + adverb - that thus/so
*û-mah-yiṣdaq*: conjunction + interrogative + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and how can be righteous
*ʾĕnôš*: masculine singular noun - man, mortal
*ʿim-ʾēl*: preposition + masculine singular noun - with God

Word Meanings

*ʾāmnām*: truly, indeed, verily
*yādaʿtî*: to know, understand, recognize
*yiṣdaq*: to be righteous, be justified, be in the right
*ʾĕnôš*: man, mankind, mortal (emphasizes frailty)
*ʾēl*: God, deity, divine being

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 4:17 : 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Rom 3:20 : 20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
1 Kgs 8:46 : 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 captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;
Job 14:3-4 : 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 32:2 : 2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 33:9 : 9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
Job 34:5 : 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
Ps 130:3 : 3 If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

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