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 you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath aroused, 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 justice.

If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.