Job 9:2
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
BSB
ASV
Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
KJV
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Blessed Job in his answer above in which he had responded to Eliphaz's words, seemed to have overlooked one argument which Eliphaz had proposed about the justice of God when he said, "Will man ever be justified in comparison with God?" (4:17) He rather seemed …
I know it is so of a truth, and that man put with God is not justified. For man being put under God receives righteousness; being put with God he loses it: for everyone that compares himself with the Author of all good things, bereaves himself of the good which he had received. For he that ascribes to himself blessings vouchsafed to him, is fighting against God with His own gifts. Therefore by whatsoever means he being in contempt is lifted up, it is meet that being so set up he be brought to the ground by the same.
I know it is so of a truth - I acknowledge the general truth of the maxims you have advanced. God will not ultimately punish a righteous person, nor shall the wicked finally triumph; and though righteous before man, and truly sincere in my piety, yet I know, when compared with the immaculate holiness of God, all my righteousness is nothing.
1834–1892
THE great question for the human race to answer has always been this, "How can man be just with God?" It is clear to every conscience that is at all awake that the thrice-holy God demands obedience to His Law and that disobedience to the Divine Law will certainly entail punishment. Hence the grand essential for each one of us is to be right towards God—to be accounted just even at His judgment bar.
I know it is so of a truth--that God does not "pervert justice" (Job 8:3). But (even though I be sure of being in the right) how can a mere man assert his right--(be just) with God. The Gospel answers (Ro 3:26).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
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Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
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How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
leads to
know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in…
Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
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Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
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