Job 9:2 - Tree of Life Version

² “Truly I know it is so, but how can one be righteous before God?

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 8:46

If they sin against You—for there is no man that does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and their captors carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

Ezra 9:15

Adonai, God of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left this day as a remnant. Behold, here we are before You in our guilt; because of it no one can stand before You.”

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous with 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 in His eyes,

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite of the clan 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 innocent, without iniquity.

Job 34:5

“For Job says, ‘I am righteous, but God has deprived me of justice.

Job 4:17

‘Can a mortal be righteous before God; or a man pure before his Creator?

Job 9:1

Job responded and said:

Psalm 130:3

If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for in Your eyes no one living is righteous.

Romans 3:20

For no human, on the basis of Torah observance, will be set right in His sight—for through the Torah comes awareness of sin.