Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
New American Standard Bible
But how can a
King James Version
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Holman Bible
but how can a person be justified before God?
International Standard Version
"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?
A Conservative Version
Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?
American Standard Version
Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
Amplified
“Yes, I know it is true.
But how can a mortal man be right before God?
Bible in Basic English
Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
Darby Translation
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
Julia Smith Translation
I knew that so the truth: and how shall man be just with God?
King James 2000
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?
Modern King James verseion
Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"I know it is so of a truth: for how may a man, compared unto God, be justified?
NET Bible
"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
New Heart English Bible
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
The Emphasized Bible
Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
Webster
I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
World English Bible
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Youngs Literal Translation
Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?
Themes
Justification » Of self, impossible
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
1 Then Job answered and said, 2 "Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God? 3 If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.
Names
Cross References
Job 4:17
'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 25:4
"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.
Romans 3:20
For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.
1 Kings 8:46
"If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,
Job 14:3-4
Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.
Job 32:2
So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}. {He became angry} at Job because he justified himself rather than God,
Job 33:9
'I [am] clean, without transgression; I [am] pure, and [there is] no guilt in me.
Job 34:5
for Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.
Psalm 130:3
If you, O Yah, should {keep track of} iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?