Job 9:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Job 9:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 40:2
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Job 9:32-33
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. …
Job 23:3-7
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! …
Job 31:35-37
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. …

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Depravity of Man God Guidance Lord Majesty Theology

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth, Job 9:2. Note, We should be ready to own how far we agree with those with whom we dispute, and should not sligh…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. If he--God will contend with him--literally, “deign to enter into judgment.” he cannot answer, &c.--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.