Job 9:2

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Job 9:2

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

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How

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

Then the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled. His anger was kindled against Job because he justified himself rather than God.

I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near,

If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?

And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.