Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then Job replied: New Living Translation Then Job spoke again: English Standard Version Then Job answered and said: Berean Standard Bible Then Job answered: King James Bible Then Job answered and said, New King James Version Then Job answered and said: New American Standard Bible Then Job responded, NASB 1995 Then Job answered, NASB 1977 Then Job answered, Legacy Standard Bible Then Job answered and said, Amplified Bible Then Job answered and said, Christian Standard Bible Then Job answered: Holman Christian Standard Bible Then Job answered: American Standard Version Then Job answered and said, Aramaic Bible in Plain English And Job answered and said: Brenton Septuagint Translation Then Job answered and said, Contemporary English Version Job said: Douay-Rheims Bible And Job answered, and said: English Revised Version Then Job answered and said, GOD'S WORD® Translation Then Job replied [to his friends], International Standard Version This was Job's response: JPS Tanakh 1917 Then Job answered and said: Literal Standard Version And Job answers and says: Majority Standard Bible Then Job answered: New American Bible Then Job answered and said: NET Bible Then Job answered: New Revised Standard Version Then Job answered: New Heart English Bible Then Job answered, Webster's Bible Translation Then Job answered and said, World English Bible Then Job answered, Young's Literal Translation And Job answereth and saith: -- Additional Translations ... Context Job: How Can I Argue with God?1Then Job answered: 2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?… Cross References Job 8:22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more." Job 9:2 "Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? Treasury of Scripture Then Job answered and said, Jump to Previous JobJump to Next JobJob 9 1. Job acknowledges God's justice22. Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions Verses 1-35. - Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bildad's alternative. Man cannot absolutely justify himself before God. It is in vain to attempt to do so. The contest is too unequal. On the one side perfect wisdom and absolute strength (ver. 4); on the other, weakness, imperfection, ignorance. guilt (vers. 17-20). And no "daysman," or umpire, between them; no third party to hold the balance even, and preside authoritatively over the controversy, and see that justice is done (vers. 33-35). Were it otherwise, Job would not shrink from the controversy; but he thinks it ill arguing with omnipotent power. What he seems to lack is the absolute conviction expressed by Abraham in the emphatic words'" Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25). Verses 1, 2. - And Job answered and said, I know it is so of a truth. "I freely admit," is., "all that has been said." God would not cast away a perfectly righteous man (Job 8:20); and, of course, he punishes evil-doers. But, applied practically, what is the result? How should man be just with God? or, before God? Apart from any knowledge of the doctrine of original or inherited sin, each man feels, deep in his heart, that he is sinful - "a chief of sinners." Bradford looks upon the murderer as he mounts the scaffold, and says, "But for the grace of God, there goes John Bradford!" Job has a similar conviction, that in the sight of God, righteousness, such as it is, shrinks away into insignificance, and is as nothing, cannot anyhow be relied upon. Such must be the attitude before God of every human soul that is not puffed up with pride or utterly insensate and sunk in apathy. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Then Jobאִיּ֗וֹב (’î·yō·wḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 347: Job -- a patriarch answered: וַיַּ֥עַן (way·ya·‘an) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6030: To answer, respond Links Job 9:1 NIVJob 9:1 NLT Job 9:1 ESV Job 9:1 NASB Job 9:1 KJV Job 9:1 BibleApps.com Job 9:1 Biblia Paralela Job 9:1 Chinese Bible Job 9:1 French Bible Job 9:1 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 9:1 Then Job answered (Jb) |