Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?

New American Standard Bible

“In truth I know that this is so;
But how can a man be in the right before God?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,
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?

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?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being 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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
it is so of a truth
אמנם 
'omnam 
Usage: 8

but how should man
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

1 And Job answered and said, 2 Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God? 3 If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.

Cross References

Job 4:17

Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

Job 25:4

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 143:2

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

Romans 3:20

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

1 Kings 8:46

If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;

Job 14:3-4

Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Job 32:2

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

Job 33:9

I am clean without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me;

Job 34:5

For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:

Psalm 130:3

If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?

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