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Job 9:11Then Job answered:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Job 9:22“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 4:17Job 25:4Ps 143:2Rom 3:201 Kgs 8:46Job 14:3-4Job 32:2Job 33:9Job 34:5Ps 130:3
Job 9:33If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 10:2Job 40:21 John 1:81 John 3:20Isa 57:15-16Job 23:3-7Job 31:35-37Job 33:13Job 9:20Job 9:32-33
Job 9:44He is wise in heart and mighty in strength — who has resisted him and remained safe?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 36:5Eph 3:20Rom 11:33Eph 3:10Exod 14:17-18Job 9:19Jude 1:24-25Prov 29:11 Cor 10:222 Chr 13:12
Job 9:55He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 21:11Matt 27:51Hab 3:10Rev 11:13Rev 16:18-201 Cor 13:2Hab 3:6Isa 40:12Job 28:9Matt 21:21
Job 9:66he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hag 2:6Heb 12:26Ps 75:3Isa 2:21Job 26:11Job 38:4-7Isa 2:19Hag 2:21Isa 13:13-14Ps 114:7
Job 9:77he who commands the sun, and it does not shine and seals up the stars,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 13:10Amos 8:9Luke 21:25-26Amos 4:13Dan 4:35Exod 10:21-22Ezek 32:7-8Job 37:7Job 38:19-20Josh 10:12
Job 9:88he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 44:24Isa 40:22Ps 104:2-3Job 37:18Zech 12:1Jer 10:11Matt 14:25-30Ps 33:6Isa 42:5Job 38:11
Job 9:99He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:8Gen 1:16Job 38:31-41Ps 147:4Acts 28:13Ps 104:13Job 37:9Ps 104:3
Job 9:1010he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 5:9Ps 72:18Eph 3:20Rom 11:33Dan 4:2-3Ps 136:4Eccl 3:11Isa 40:26-28Exod 15:11Ps 71:15
Job 9:1111If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 23:8-9Job 35:14Ps 77:191 Tim 6:16
Job 9:1212If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:9Job 11:10Job 23:13Dan 4:35Job 34:29Rom 11:34Jer 18:6Job 33:13Matt 20:15Eph 1:11
Job 9:1313God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 26:12Ps 89:10Isa 30:7Isa 51:9Jas 4:6-7Isa 31:2-3Job 40:9-11
Job 9:1414“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:27Job 11:4-5Job 23:4Job 23:7Job 25:6Job 33:5Job 4:19Job 9:3
Job 9:1515Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 10:15Job 8:51 Pet 2:23Job 10:2Job 22:27Job 5:81 Cor 4:41 Kgs 8:38-392 Chr 33:13Dan 9:18
Job 9:1616If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice—Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 12:14-16Exod 6:9Job 29:24Judg 6:13Luke 24:41Ps 116:1-2Ps 126:1Ps 18:6Ps 66:18-20
Job 9:1717he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 16:14Job 2:3Job 34:6Ezek 13:13Isa 28:17Jer 23:19Job 1:14-19Job 16:12Job 16:17Job 2:13
Job 9:1818He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 7:19Lam 3:15Heb 12:11Job 27:2Job 3:20Lam 3:18-19Lam 3:3Ps 39:13Ps 88:15-18Ps 88:7
Job 9:1919If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 9:32-33Job 9:41 Cor 1:25Job 40:9-10Matt 6:13Ps 62:11Job 31:35Job 33:5-7Job 36:17-191 Cor 10:22
Job 9:2020Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me, although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 15:5-6Job 32:1-2Job 34:35Job 4:17Job 9:2Phil 3:12-15Ps 130:3Ps 143:21 Tim 6:5Isa 6:5
Job 9:2121I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 1:1Ps 139:23-241 Cor 4:4Job 7:21Prov 28:261 John 3:20Jer 17:9-10Job 7:15-16
Job 9:2222“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 9:1-3Ezek 21:3-4Job 10:8Luke 13:2-4
Job 9:2323If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 24:122 Sam 14:152 Sam 14:17Ezek 14:19-21Ezek 21:13Heb 11:36-37Job 1:13-19Job 2:7Job 4:7Job 8:20
Job 9:2424If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 10:3Jer 12:1-2Ps 73:3-72 Sam 15:30Job 21:7-152 Sam 19:4Dan 4:17Dan 5:18-21Dan 7:7-28Esth 6:12
Job 9:2525“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:14Job 7:6-7Ps 90:9-10Esth 8:14Ps 39:11Ps 39:5Ps 89:47
Job 9:2626They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 1:8Isa 18:22 Sam 1:23Jer 4:13Job 39:27-30Lam 4:19Prov 23:5
Job 9:2727If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 7:13Jer 8:18Job 7:11Ps 77:2-3
Job 9:2828I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:120Job 10:14Job 14:16Job 21:6Job 3:25Job 7:21Job 9:2Job 9:20-21Ps 130:3Ps 88:15-16
Job 9:2929If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 10:7Jer 2:35Job 10:14-17Job 10:2Job 21:16-17Job 21:27Job 22:5-30Job 9:22Ps 37:33Ps 73:13
Job 9:3030If I wash myself with snow-melt water, and make my hands clean with lye,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:22Ps 26:61 John 1:8Isa 1:16-18Jer 4:14Job 31:7Prov 28:13Rom 10:3
Job 9:3131then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:6Isa 64:6Job 15:6Job 9:20Phil 3:8-9
Job 9:3232For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:20Eccl 6:10Isa 45:9Num 23:19Ps 143:21 John 3:201 Sam 16:7Jer 49:19Job 13:18-23Job 23:3-7
Job 9:3333Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:251 John 2:1-2Job 9:19Ps 106:231 Kgs 3:16-28
Job 9:3434who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 39:10Job 13:11Job 33:7Job 13:20-22Job 23:15Job 29:2-25Job 31:23Job 37:1Ps 90:11
Job 9:3535Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
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