Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before 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?
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?
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?
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 Then Job answered: 2 "Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God? 3 If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
Names
Cross References
Job 4:17
"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
Psalm 143:2
Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
Romans 3:20
For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
1 Kings 8:46
"The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.
Job 14:3-4
Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
Job 32:2
Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
Job 33:9
I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
Job 34:5
For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
Psalm 130:3
If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?