The King James Version Bible

Job 9:2

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

Cross References

  1. Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
  2. How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
  3. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
  4. 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.
  5. If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
  6. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  7. Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
  8. I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
  9. For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
  10. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.