Job 9:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Romans 3:20

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgement with thy servant; For in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Job 25:4

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 130:3

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Job 34:5

For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

Job 33:9

I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

Job 32:2

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: Against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

1 Kings 8:46

If 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 captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;

Ezra 9:15

O LORD, the God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before thee because of this.

Job 9:1

Then Job answered and said,

Job 25:5

Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight: