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Then Job answered and said,

Of a truth I know that it is so:
[a]But how can man be just [b]with God?
[c]If he be pleased to contend with him,
He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:2 Or, For
  2. Job 9:2 Or, before
  3. Job 9:3 Or, If one should desire . . . He could not etc.

Job

Then Job replied:

“Indeed, I know that this is true.
    But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)
Though they wished to dispute with him,(B)
    they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.(C)

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