Job 9:3 Cross References - ECB

³ If he desires to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

²⁰ If I justify myself, my own mouth judges me wicked; I - integrious, it also perverts me;

³² For he is not a man as I, that I answer him and we come together in judgment. ³³ There is no reprover between us to place his hand on us both.

² I say to Elohah, Judge me not wicked; let me know why you contend with me.

³ Who gives that I know - that I find him - that I come to his place! ⁴ O that I line up my judgment at his face and fill my mouth with reproofs. ⁵ O that I know the utterances he answers me and discern what he says to me. ⁶ Contends he against me with his abundant force? No; but he sets it in me. ⁷ There the straight reprove him; and in perpetuity, I slip away from my judge.

³⁵ Who gives that someone hear me! Behold, my mark! Shadday, answer me! Man of contention, scribe a scroll! ³⁶ If not, I lift it on my shoulder and fasten it to me as a crown. ³⁷ I tell him my paces; as an eminent I go near him.

¹³ Why strive against him? Of all his words, he answers none.

¹⁴ If he sets his heart on man, he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself. ¹⁵ All flesh expires together and humanity returns to dust.

² Contends the reprover with Shadday? Whoever reproves Elohah, answer!

¹² Inadvertent errors - who discerns? Exonerate me from the hidden;

¹² For innumerable evils surround me; my perversities overtake me so that I am not able to see; - mightier than the hairs of my head; and my heart forsakes me.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lifted One who tabernacles eternally - whose name is Holy; I tabernacle in the high and holy and with the crushed and lowly spirit - to enliven the spirit of the lowly, and to enliven the heart of the crushed. ¹⁶ For I neither contend eternally nor perpetually rage: for the spirit languishes at my face, and the breaths I work.

²⁰ Yet so, O humanity, who are you to contradict Elohim? Says the molded to the molder, Why made you me thus?

⁸ whenever we say we have no sin we seduce ourselves and the truth is not in us:

²⁰ Because whenever our heart condemns us, Elohim is greater than our heart and knows all.