Job 9:2 - The Scriptures 2009

“Truly I know it is so. But how is man right with Elohim?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Yes, I know it is true. But how can mortal man be right before God?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

I know for certain that this is so; and how can anyone be innocent before God?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God

Job 9:2 Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“When they sin against You – for there is no one who does not sin – and You become enraged with them and give them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

Ezra 9:15

“O יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. See, we are before You, in our guilt, for there is no one to stand before You concerning this!”

Job 25:4

So how could man be righteous before Ěl? Or how could he be flawless who is born of a woman?

Job 25:5

See, even the moon does not shine, and the stars have not been flawless in His eyes,

Job 32:2

And the wrath of Elihu, son of Baraḵ’ĕl the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, burned against Iyoḇ. His wrath burned because he declared himself right rather than Elohim.

Job 33:9

I am clear, without transgression; I am innocent, and I have no crookedness.

Job 34:5

For Iyoḇ has said, ‘I am righteous, but Ěl has taken away my right.

Job 4:17

Is mortal man more righteous than Eloah? Is man more clean than his Maker?

Job 9:1

And Iyoḇ answered and said,

Psalm 130:3

O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O יהוה, who would stand?

Psalm 143:2

And do not enter into right-ruling with Your servant, For before You no one living is in the right.

Romans 3:20

Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.