Job 9:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.

Cross References

Job 10:2

I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

1 John 3:20

whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”

Psalm 40:12

For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Psalm 19:12

But who can detect one’s own errors? Clear me from hidden faults.

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?

Job 9:20

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Job 9:14

How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

Job 13:19

Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

Job 40:5

I have spoken once, and I will not answer, twice but will proceed no further.”

Job 34:23

For he has not appointed a time for anyone to go before God in judgment.