Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

He will contend

Job 9:20
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
Job 23:3
If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
Job 31:35
If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
Job 33:13
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
Job 34:14
If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,
Job 40:2
Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

He cannot

Psalm 19:12
Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
Psalm 40:12
For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain