Job 9:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man 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 mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Romans 3:20

For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

Psalm 130:3

If thou, O Lord, shouldst 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 the 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 thee—for there is no man who does not sin—and thou art angry with them, and dost 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 the God of Israel, thou art just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as at this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guilt, for none can stand before thee because of this.”

Job 9:1

Then Job answered:

Job 25:5

Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clean in his sight;