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?

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    1And Job made answer and said,

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    1Then Job made answer and said,

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    14How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

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

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    1And Job made answer and said,

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    1Then Job made answer and said,

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    2Job made answer and said,

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