Job 9:2

²Truly I have known that [it is] so, And what — is man righteous with God?

In Job 9, Job responds to Bildad with a devastating portrait of God's absolute power and human helplessness. He agrees that no one can be righteous before such a God, but the agreement is not comfort—it is despair. Job longs for an arbitrator who could stand between him and God, a m

References· Job 9

a: v.10 — Job 5:9, Psalms 72:18, Ephesians 3:20, Romans 11:33, Psalms 136:4, Daniel 4:2-3, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Isaiah 40:26-28, Exodus 15:11, Psalms 71:15
b: v.11 — Job 23:8-9, Job 35:14, Psalms 77:19, 1 Timothy 6:16
c: v.32 — Mediator between God and man: 1 Timothy 2:5; Romans 9:20, Ecclesiastes 6:10, Numbers 23:19, Psalms 143:2, Isaiah 45:9, Job 23:3-7, Job 13:18-23, Job 35:5-7, 1 Samuel 16:7, Jeremiah 49:19

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