Job 9:2

In 11 translations

BSB

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

KJV

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

WEB

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

ASV

Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

LSV

“Truly I have known that [it is] so, || But how is man righteous with God?

YLT

Truly I have known that [it is] so, And what — is man righteous with God?

DBY

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

DRC

Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.

GNV

I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

JPS

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

LXXE

I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

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WLC

אָ֭מְנָם יָדַ֣עְתִּי כִי־כֵ֑ן וּמַה־יִּצְדַּ֖ק אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עִם־אֵֽל׃

LXX-Br

Ἐπʼ ἀληθείας οἶδα, ὅτι οὕτως ἐστί· πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς παρὰ Κυρίῳ;

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• Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
• Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
• Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
• 1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
• Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
• Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
• Job 14:3–4Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

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