2 Job declareth the mighty power of God, and that man’s righteousness is nothing.

Then Job answered, and said,

I know verily that it is so: for how should man compared unto God, be [a]justified?

If he would dispute with him, he could not answer him one thing of [b]thousand.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:2 Job here answereth to that point of 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.
  2. Job 9:3 Of a thousand things, which God could lay to his charge, man cannot answer him one.

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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