Verse 2

I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Sannelig, jeg vet at dette er sant; hvordan kan et menneske rettferdiggjøre seg for Gud?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg vet at det er slik: men hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?

• Norsk King James

  Jeg vet at dette er sant: men hvordan kan et menneske bli rettferdig med Gud?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Sannelig, jeg vet at det er sånn, men hvordan kan et menneske ha rett overfor Gud?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Sannelig, jeg vet at det er slik. Men hvordan kan et menneske ha rett for Gud?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg vet at det er slik: men hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg vet at det er sant, men hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Jeg vet at det er slik: men hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Sannelig, jeg vet at det er slik, men hvordan kan et menneske bli rettferdig overfor Gud?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Job.9.2", "source": "אָ֭מְנָם יָדַ֣עְתִּי כִי־כֵ֑ן וּמַה־יִּצְדַּ֖ק אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עִם־אֵֽל׃", "text": "*ʾāmnām* *yādaʿtî* *kî-kēn* *û-mah-yiṣdaq* *ʾĕnôš* *ʿim-ʾēl*", "grammar": { "*ʾāmnām*": "adverb - truly, indeed", "*yādaʿtî*": "qal perfect 1st person singular - I know/have known", "*kî-kēn*": "conjunction + adverb - that thus/so", "*û-mah-yiṣdaq*": "conjunction + interrogative + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and how can be righteous", "*ʾĕnôš*": "masculine singular noun - man, mortal", "*ʿim-ʾēl*": "preposition + masculine singular noun - with God" }, "variants": { "*ʾāmnām*": "truly, indeed, verily", "*yādaʿtî*": "to know, understand, recognize", "*yiṣdaq*": "to be righteous, be justified, be in the right", "*ʾĕnôš*": "man, mankind, mortal (emphasizes frailty)", "*ʾēl*": "God, deity, divine being" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Ja visst, jeg vet at det er slik. Hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig overfor Gud?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Sandeligen, jeg veed, at det er saaledes, og hvorledes skulde et Menneske være retfærdigt for Gud?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg vet det er sant, men hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  "Jeg vet at det er slik, men hvordan kan en mann være rettferdig for Gud?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Sannelig har jeg forstått at det er slik. Hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Sant nok, jeg vet at det er slik: Men hvordan kan et menneske være rettferdig for Gud?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Sannelig, jeg ser at det er slik: Hvordan kan et menneske få rett mot Gud?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  As for yt I knowe it is so of a treuth, yt a man compared vnto God, can not be iustified.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I knowe it is so of a trueth: For how may a man compared vnto God be iustified?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Truly I have known that `it is' so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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 righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
• Rom 3:20 : 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Ps 143:2 : 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.
• 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
• Job 14:3-4 : 3 And do You open Your eyes upon 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, because he justified himself rather than God.
• Job 33:9 : 9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
• Job 34:5 : 5 For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my justice.
• Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?