Job 9:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

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  • 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 righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Job 32:2 : 2 Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job, 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 has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my justice.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?

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