Job 9:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:17 : 17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 “The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment? 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
  • Job 32:2 : 2 Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:9 : 9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

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