Job 9:3 Cross References - EJ2000

³ If he desires to contend with him, he will not be able to answer him one thing of a thousand.

²⁰ If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together unto judgment. ³³ Neither is there any arbiter between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

² I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.

³ Oh, that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would order judgment before him and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say unto me. ⁶ Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but rather he would put it in me. ⁷ There the righteous might dispute with him; and should I escape for ever from the one who condemns me.

³⁵ Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges. ³⁶ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me. ³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him.

¹³ Why dost thou strive against him? For he will not answer all of thy words.

¹⁴ If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath, ¹⁵ all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

² Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? Let him that disputes with God answer this.

¹² Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

¹² For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to see; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.

¹⁵ For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is The Holy One; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live. ¹⁶ For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for by me is the spirit covered by the body, and I have made the souls.

²⁰ Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

⁸ ¶ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

²⁰ ¶ And if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.