| Job 9:2 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "In truth I know that this is so; But how can a man be in the right before God? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "Yes, I know that this is true. But how can a mortal be declared righteous to God?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? |
| ASV: | Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God? |
| BBE: | Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? |
| DBY: | Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with łGod? |
| ERV: | Of a truth I know that it is so: but how can man be just with God? |
| JPS: | Of a truth I know that it is so; and how can man be just with God? |
| WBS: | I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? |
| WEB: | "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? |
| YLT: | Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God? |
| Job 9:2 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 4:17 'Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 25:4 "How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 9:2 I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be {a} just with God?
(a) Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad's oration, touching the justice of God, and his innocency, confessing God to be infinite in justice and man to be nothing in respect. |
| WES: | 9:2 I know - That God is just in all his ways, that he doth ordinarily bless the righteous, and punish the wicked. Before God - And I know that no man is absolutely just, if God be severe to mark what is amiss in him. |
| MHC: | 9:1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, he forgets his complaints. We are unfit to judge of God's proceedings, because we know not what he does, or what he designs. God acts with power which no creature can resist. Those who think they have strength enough to help others, will not be able to help themselves against it. |
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