Job 9
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Job 9:1-2

11Then Job answered:

2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

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Notes

  1. 1. Job 9:1 This speech of Job in response to Bildad falls into two large sections, chs. 9 and 10. In ch. 9 he argues that God’s power and majesty prevent him from establishing his integrity in his complaint to God. And in ch. 10 Job tries to discover in God’s plan the secret of his afflictions. The speech seems to continue what Job was saying to Eliphaz more than it addresses Bildad. See K. Fullerton, “On Job 9 and 10,” JBL 53 (1934): 321-49. ↩

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