New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 9:3
Job 9:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- New International Version (NIV)Though they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If one wished to contend with Him, He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
Context of Job 9:3
1Then Job responded, 2“In truth I know that this is so; But how can a person be in the right with God? If one wished to dispute with Him, He could not answer Him once in a thousand times. 4Wise in heart and mighty in strength, Who has defied Him without harm? 5It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know how, When He overturns them in His anger.
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אִם־יַ֭חְפֹּץ לָרִ֣יב עִמּ֑וֹ לֹֽא־יַ֝עֲנֶ֗נּוּ אַחַ֥ת מִנִּי־אָֽלֶף׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 9:3
- Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty.
- Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.
- Job 23:3Oh that I knew how to find Him, That I might come to His home!
- Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature; Let the Almighty answer me! And the indictment which my adversary has written,
- Job 33:13“Why do you complain to Him That He does not give an account of all His doings?
- Job 34:14If He were to determine to do so, If He were to gather His spirit and His breath to Himself,
- Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who rebukes God give an answer.”
- Isaiah 57:15For this is what the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Romans 9:20On the contrary, who are you, you foolish person, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
- Psalms 19:12Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.
- Psalms 40:12For evils beyond number have surrounded me; My guilty deeds have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my heart has failed me.
- 1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 3:20that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things.
Commentaries on Job 9:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3If he will contend with him - God is so holy, and his law so strict, that if he will enter into judgment with his creatures, the most upright of them cannot be justified in his sight. One of a thousand - Of a thousand offenses of which he may be accused he cannot vindicate himself even in one. How little that any man does, even in the way of righteousness, truth, and mercy, can stand the penetrating eye of a just and holy God, when all motives, feelings…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3If he will contend with him - That is, if God enters into a controversy with man. If he chooses to charge crime on him, and to hold him responsible for his deeds. The language here is taken from courts of justice, and means that if a trial were instituted, where God should submit charges, and the matter were left to adjudication, man could not answer the charges against him; compare the notes at Isaiah 41:1. He cannot answer him one of a thousand - For…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3If one wished to contend with God: Job later wished to meet God in court (13:3, 15, 23; 23:4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. If he--God will contend with him--literally, "deign to enter into judgment." he cannot answer, &c.--He (man) would not dare, even if he had a thousand answers in readiness to one question of God's, to utter one of them, from awe of His Majesty.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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