Job 9:3

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

² Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,
but how can a person be justified before God?
³ If one wanted to take Him to court,
he could not answer God once in a thousand times.
⁴ God is wise and all-powerful.
Who has opposed Him and come out unharmed?

Contend with Him

With God

Dispute With Him

Job

Job 10:2

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

Job 40:2

Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?
Let him who argues with God give an answer.

Job 9:20

Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;
if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

Job 9:32-33

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

Job 23:3-7

If only I knew how to find Him,
so that I could go to His throne.

Job 31:35-37

If only I had someone to hear my case!
Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me.
Let my Opponent compose His indictment.

Job 33:13

Why do you take Him to court
for not answering anything a person asks?

Job 34:14-15

If He put His mind to it
and withdrew the spirit and breath He gave,

Psalm 19:12

Who perceives his unintentional sins?
Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

Psalm 40:12

For troubles without number have surrounded me;
my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my courage leaves me.

Isaiah 57:15-16

For the High and Exalted One
who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

1 John 1:8

If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 3:20

even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.