Job 9:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?”
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BSBPD
““Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Truly I have known that <FI>it is<Fi> so, And what--is man righteous with God?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 9:2 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
- Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
- Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
- Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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