Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with 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?
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?
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?
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 This was Job's response: 2 "Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God? 3 If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.
Names
Cross References
Job 4:17
"Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?'
Job 25:4
How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?
Psalm 143:2
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.
Romans 3:20
Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.
1 Kings 8:46
"When they sin against you because there isn't a single human being who doesn't sin and you become angry with them and deliver them over to their enemy, who takes them away captive to the land that belongs to their enemy, whether near or far away,
Job 14:3-4
Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this to bring me into a legal fight with you?
Job 32:2
But then Barachel's son Elihu from Buz, one of Ram's descendants, got really angry. He was furious with Job because he had been declaring himself righteous instead of vindicating God.
Job 33:9
"I'm pure. I'm without sin; I'm innocent. I'm harboring no iniquity inside of me.
Job 34:5
Now this is Job's claim: "Even though I'm innocent, God has stopped treating me righteously.
Psalm 130:3
LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?