Job 9:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.”
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“If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If he delight to strive with Him--He doth not answer him one of a thousand.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 9:3 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
- Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
- Job 23:3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- Job 31:35(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- Job 34:14If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
- Job 34:23For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
- Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
- Psalms 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
- Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
- 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 3:20Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
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