Job 9

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 "Truly I know that it is so:

But how can a man be *ch. 4:17in the right before God?

3 If one wished to *[ch. 10:2;Ps. 143:2;Rom. 3:20]contend with him,

one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

4 He is *[ch. 12:13;36:5] wise in heart and mighty in strength—

who has *[Ex. 7:13;32:9]hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—