Job 9:3

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

² Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God? ³ If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand. ⁴ Wise in heart and strong in power -- Who hath hardened toward Him and is at peace?

Contend with Him

With God

Dispute With Him

Job

Job 10:2

I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me.

Job 40:2

Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

Job 9:20

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

Job 9:32-33

But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

Job 23:3-7

O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

Job 31:35-37

Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

Job 33:13

Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?

Job 34:14-15

If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

Psalm 19:12

Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

Psalm 40:12

For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

Isaiah 57:15-16

For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

Romans 9:20

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

1 John 1:8

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

1 John 3:20

because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.