Job 9:2-3

²"So what''s new? I know all this. The question is, "How can mere mortals get right with God?''

³If we wanted to bring our case before him, what chance would we have? Not one in a thousand!

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