Job 9:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² “Indeed, I know that this is so, but how can a mortal be just before God?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² I know it is so of a truth: But how should man be just with God?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Yes, I know it is true. But how can mortal man be right before God?

American Standard Version (1901)

² Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

Common English Bible

² I know for certain that this is so; and how can anyone be innocent before God?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.

Job 9:2 Cross References

Job 4:17

‘Can mortals be righteous before God? Can humans be pure before their Maker?

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Job 25:4

How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

Job 34:5

For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

Job 33:9

You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

Ezra 9:15

O Lord, God of Israel, you are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before you in our guilt, though no one can face you because of this.”

Job 9:1

Then Job answered:

Job 25:5

If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,