Job 9:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:17 : 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him? 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
  • Job 32:2 : 2 And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;
  • Job 33:9 : 9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • 3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

  • 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Job 34:5-6
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    5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

    6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • 4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

    13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

  • Job 9:19-20
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    19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

    20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • Job 9:28-29
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    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

    29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

  • 1 And Job said in answer to the Lord,

  • 1 Then Job made answer and said,

  • Job 13:2-3
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    2 The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

    3 But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

  • 4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • 18 See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

  • Job 9:14-15
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    14 How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

    15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

  • 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • Job 40:2-3
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    2 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

    3 Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

  • 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

    7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

  • 1 Then Job made answer and said,

  • 2 Job made answer and said,

  • 2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • 2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

  • 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

  • 11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

  • 7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

  • 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

  • 13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • 14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

  • 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

  • 6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

  • 9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

  • 23 For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

  • 4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?