Job 9:3

If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

Job 10:2

I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.'

Job 40:2

"Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!"

Job 9:20

Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

Job 9:32-33

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

Job 23:3-7

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

Job 31:35-37

"If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature -- let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?

Job 34:14-15

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

Psalm 19:12

Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

Isaiah 57:15-16

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you -- a mere human being -- to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

1 John 1:8

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

1 John 3:20

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

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Summary

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Bible References

He will contend

Job 9:20
Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
Job 10:2
I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.'
Job 23:3
O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!
Job 31:35
"If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature -- let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.
Job 33:13
Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?
Job 34:14
If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
Job 40:2
"Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!"
Isaiah 57:15
For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
Romans 9:20
But who indeed are you -- a mere human being -- to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

He cannot

Psalm 19:12
Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.
1 John 1:8
If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 3:20
that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

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