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Job 9:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? "
Job 9:2
Verse in Context
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1 Then Job answered,
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
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Job 9:1
"Then Job answered,"
Job 9:3
"If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand."
Job 9:4
"God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?"
Job 9:5
"He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger."
Job 9:6
"He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble."
Job 9:7
"He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars."
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