Job 9:3

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Job 9:1–5 · 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.

4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

5 He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

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

Job 9:20

Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

Job 9:32

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

Job 9:33

Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

Job 10:2

I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

Job 23:3

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

Job 23:4

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 23:5

I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

Job 23:6

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

Job 23:7

Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

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 31:36

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

Job 31:37

I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

Job 33:13

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Job 34:14

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Job 40:2

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Isaiah 57:15

For 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.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

Romans 9:20

But 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?”

Psalms 19:12

Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

Psalms 40:12

For 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.

1 John 1:8

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 3:20

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.