Bible verse

Job 9:2

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

Job 9:2 · BSB

Job 9:2 in context

The verses around it, from Job 9.

1 Then Job answered:

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

3 If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

5 He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

6 He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

Read all of Job 9

Job 9:2 in other translations

KJV

I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

ASV

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

ERV

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

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