Job 9:2

New English Translation

“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.

Ezra 9:15

O Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt no one can really stand before you.”

Job 25:4

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

Job 25:5

If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.

Job 33:9

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

Job 34:5

For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

Job 4:17

“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

Job 9:1

Then Job answered:

Psalm 130:3

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Psalm 143:2

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Romans 3:20

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.