Job 9:2 Cross References - ISV

² “Indeed, I’m fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

⁴⁶ “When they sin against you—because there isn’t a single human being who doesn’t sin—and you become angry with them and deliver them over to their enemy, who takes them away captive to the land that belongs to their enemy, whether near or far away,

¹⁷ ‘Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?’

³ Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you? ⁴ Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!

⁴ How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

² But then Barachel’s son Elihu from Buz, one of Ram’s descendants, got really angry. He was furious with Job because he had been declaring himself righteous instead of vindicating God.

⁹ ‘I’m pure. I’m without sin; I’m innocent. I’m harboring no iniquity inside of me.

⁵ Elihu Reviews Job’s Complaint against God’s InjusticeNow this is Job’s claim: ‘Even though I’m innocent, God has stopped treating me righteously.

³ LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?

² Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

²⁰ Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.