Job 9:2

New Century Version

“Yes, I know that this is true, but how can anyone be right in the presence of God?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“Everyone sins, so your people will also sin against you. You will become angry with them and hand them over to their enemies. Their enemies will capture them and take them away to their countries far or near.

Ezra 9:15

Lord, God of Israel, by your goodness a few of us are left alive today. We admit that we are guilty and none of us should be allowed to stand before you.”

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Job 25:5

Even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes.

Job 32:2

But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, from the family of Ram, became very angry with Job, because Job claimed he was right instead of God.

Job 33:9

You said, ‘I am pure and without sin; I am innocent and free from guilt.

Job 34:5

“Job says, ‘I am not guilty, and God has refused me a fair trial.

Job 4:17

It said, ‘Can a human be more right than God? Can a person be pure before his maker?

Job 9:1

Then Job answered:

Psalm 130:3

Lord, if you punished people for all their sins, no one would be left, Lord.

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant, because no one alive is right before you.

Romans 3:20

because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.