Job 9:3

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If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
  • Job 40:2 : 2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.
  • Isa 57:15-16 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged. 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence! 4 I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me. 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 31:35-37 : 35 Job’s Appeal“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature– let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written. 36 Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown; 37 I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath, 15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
  • Job 9:20 : 20 Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
  • Job 9:32-33 : 32 For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment. 33 Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

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    10he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.

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    5I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

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    23As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

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    10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

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    10If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

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    5Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

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    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

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