Job 9:3 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Job 9:3

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Job: There Is No Mediator

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 “Truly I know it is so,
But how can a ^aman be ^brighteous before God?

3 If one wished to¹ contend with Him,
He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

4 ^aGod is wise in heart and mighty in strength.
Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?

5 He removes the mountains, and they do not know
When He overturns them in His anger;

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Job 9:3

If he—God

will contend with him—literally, "deign to enter into judgment."

he cannot answer, etc.—He (man) would not dare, even if he had a thousand answers in readiness to one question of God's, to utter one of them, from awe of His Majesty.

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