Job 9:2

The English Standar Version

"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

"If they sin against you -- for there is no one who does not sin -- and you are angry with them and 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, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."

Job 25:4

How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?

Job 25:5

Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

Job 32:2

Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.

Job 33:9

You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 34:5

For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

Job 4:17

'Can mortal man be in the right before[2] God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 9:1

Then Job answered and said:

Psalm 130:3

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Romans 3:20

For by works of the law no human being[3] will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.