Bible verse
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Job 9:2 · BSB
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.
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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