Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
but how can a person be justified before God?
New American Standard Bible
But how can a
King James Version
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
International Standard Version
"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?
A Conservative Version
Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?
American Standard Version
Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
Amplified
“Yes, I know it is true.
But how can a mortal man be right before God?
Bible in Basic English
Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
Darby Translation
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
Julia Smith Translation
I knew that so the truth: and how shall man be just with God?
King James 2000
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
Modern King James verseion
Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"I know it is so of a truth: for how may a man, compared unto God, be justified?
NET Bible
"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
New Heart English Bible
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
The Emphasized Bible
Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
Webster
I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
World English Bible
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Youngs Literal Translation
Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?
Themes
Justification » Of self, impossible
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
1
Then Job answered:
2
but how can a person be justified before God?
he could not answer God
Names
Cross References
Job 4:17
or a man more pure than his Maker?”
Job 25:4
How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalm 143:2
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
Romans 3:20
For no one will be justified
1 Kings 8:46
for there is no one who does not sin
and You are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country
whether distant or nearby—
Job 14:3-4
Will You bring me into judgment against You?
Job 32:2
Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite
Job 33:9
I am clean and have no guilt.
Job 34:5
yet God has deprived me of justice.
Psalm 130:3
Lord, who could stand?