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Job 9:2

Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If he will contend with him,.... If God will contend with man, so Sephorno; enter into a controversy with him, litigate and dispute the point in law, whether he is just or not, man cannot answer to…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I know it is so of a truth - Job here refers, undoubtedly, to something that had been said before; but whether it is to the general strain of remark, or to some particular expression, may be doubted.…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 9:1-13

Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his…