Job 9:2
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I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
In other translations
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Job 4:17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Psalm 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Romans 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- 1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;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,
- Psalm 130:3If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Job 32:2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.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,
- Job 34:5For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 14:3-43 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? 4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- Job 33:9I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
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