Job 9:2

World English Bible (2000)

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 Do you open your eyes on 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. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:9 : 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
  • Job 34:5 : 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

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  • Job 6:1
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    4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

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    12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

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  • Job 9:19-20
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    19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

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  • Job 9:28-29
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    28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

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  • Job 42:1
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  • Job 26:1
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  • Job 13:2-3
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  • Job 20:4
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    4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

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    18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

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    14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

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  • Job 15:14
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    14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Job 19:1
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  • Job 40:2-3
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    2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

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  • Job 40:8
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    8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

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    6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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  • Job 21:1
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    2 Job answered:

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    2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

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    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 19:7
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    7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

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    6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

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    23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

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    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?