Job 9:32

World English Bible (2000)

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

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  • Eccl 6:10 : 10 Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
  • Job 13:18-23 : 18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. 20 "Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face: 21 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid. 22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me. 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! 4 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me. 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. 7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 33:12 : 12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
  • Job 35:5-7 : 5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? 7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
  • 1 John 3:20 : 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

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    33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

    34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

    35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

  • Job 33:12-13
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    12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

    13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

  • Job 9:14-16
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    14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

    15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

    16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

  • Job 32:13-14
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    13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

    14 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • Job 9:19
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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?'

  • Job 9:1-3
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    1 Then Job answered,

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

    3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

  • Job 23:5-7
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    5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

    6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

    7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

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

  • Job 14:3
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    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 34:23
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    23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • Job 31:14
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    14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • Job 13:2-3
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    2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

    3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • Job 9:31
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    31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Job 13:19
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    19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • Job 10:2
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    2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

  • 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.

  • Job 16:21
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    21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

  • Job 4:17
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    17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • Job 12:3
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    3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

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

  • Job 33:5-6
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    5 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

    6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

  • Job 38:3
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    3 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

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    2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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

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    4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

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    2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

    3 Then Job answered Yahweh,

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    5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

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    23 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

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    11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

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    10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

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    8 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

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    5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

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    9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

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    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

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    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Job 7:17
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    17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

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    12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.