Job 9:1

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Job 9:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Job answered:

2 “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

3 If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 4:17

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 14:3

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

Job 14:4

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Job 25:4

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Job 32:2

This 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 34:5

For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

1 Kings 8:46

When 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,

Psalms 130:3

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Psalms 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.