Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
KJV
Vere scio quod ita sit, et quod non justificetur homo compositus Deo.
Vulgate
Ἐπ’ ἀληθείας οἶδα ὅτι οὕτως ἐστίν. πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς παρὰ Κυρίῳ;
LXX
Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
ASV
אָ֭מְנָם יָדַ֣עְתִּי כִי כֵ֑ן וּ/מַה יִּצְדַּ֖ק אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עִם אֵֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ
'nvsh
noun · 41×
אֵ֣ל
'l
noun · 244×
אָ֭מְנָם
'mnm
adverb · 9×
הַצְדִּ֣יק
htsdyq
verb · 41×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
- 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Gal 2:16 — Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the
- Job 4:17 — Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
- Job 4:17 — Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
- Job 9:20 — If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
- Job 9:28 — I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- Job 13:18 — Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
- Job 15:14 — What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Ps 130:3 — If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Ps 143:2 — And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Ps 143:2 — And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Rom 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
- Rom 3:20 — Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.