Devine Scripture

Job 9:2

Job chapter 9 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

Context

v.1Then Job answered and said,

v.2This passage

v.3If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 25:4

    How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

  • Job 4:17

    Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • Job 32:2

    Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

  • Romans 3:20

    because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

  • Psalms 143:2

    And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

  • Psalms 130:3

    If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?