Job 9:32

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For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

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  • Eccl 6:10 : 10 The Futile Way Life Works Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.
  • 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?”
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But the LORD said to Samuel,“Don’t be impressed by his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. People look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
  • Job 13:18-23 : 18 See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right. 19 Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. 20 Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face: 21 Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror. 22 Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me. 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin.
  • 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 33:12 : 12 Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.
  • Job 35:5-7 : 5 Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you! 6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him? 7 If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.

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  • Job 9:33-35
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    33Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

    35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

    13Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

  • Job 9:14-16
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    14The Impossibility of Facing God in Court“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!

    15Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

    16If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice–

  • Job 32:13-14
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    13So do not say,‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

    14Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

  • Job 9:19
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    19If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’

  • Job 9:1-3
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    1Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:

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

    3If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

  • Job 23:5-7
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    5I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

    6Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 40:8
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    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

  • Job 14:3
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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 34:23
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    23For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

  • Job 31:14
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    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • Job 13:2-3
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    74%

    2What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you!

    3But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

  • Job 9:31
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    31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Job 10:2
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    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

  • Job 19:7
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    7Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 16:21
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    21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

  • Job 4:17
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    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Job 12:3
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    3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

  • Job 13:22
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    22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

  • Job 33:5-6
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    5Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

    6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

  • Job 38:3
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    3Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!

  • Ps 143:2
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    2Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

  • Job 21:4
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    4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

  • Job 22:4
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    4Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

  • Job 40:2-3
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    2“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

    3Then Job answered the LORD:

  • Job 34:5
    72%

    5For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

  • Job 37:23
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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.

  • Job 9:11
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    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 41:10
    72%

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

  • Isa 50:8
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    8The one who vindicates me is close by. Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! Who is my accuser? Let him challenge me!

  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

  • Job 33:9
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    9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

  • Job 10:7
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    7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • Job 7:21
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    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Job 7:17
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    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

  • 1 Sam 24:12
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    12May the LORD judge between the two of us, and may the LORD vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.