Job 9:2
1 Then Job answered:
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
3 If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
- KJV
- I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- WEB
- “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
- ASV
- Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
- DARBY
- Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
- BLB
- “Truly I know that [it is] so. But how can a man be righteous with God?
- ÅB
- Ja visst, jeg vet at det er så; hvordan skulle en mann kunne ha rett mot Gud?
- OTB
- "Sannelig, jeg vet at det er slik;
men hvordan kan et menneske bli rettferdig for Gud? - B1930
- Ja visst, jeg vet at det er så; hvorledes skulde en mann kunne ha rett mot Gud?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 4:17
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Read in contextRomans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Read in contextPsalms 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Read in contextJob 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Read in context1 Kings 8:46
When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
Read in contextJob 14:3–4
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Read in contextJob 34:5
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Read in contextJob 32:2
This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
Read in context