Job 9:1

Listen to Job 9:1

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

1 Then Job answered and said:

Job 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Job 9:1

Then Job answered and said.
] Without taking notice of Bildad's harsh expressions and severe censures, or his unfriendliness to him; he enters directly into the argument, grants some things, confutes others, and defends himself and his conduct.

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Job 9:1 In-Context

1 Then Job answered and said:
2 “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
3 If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength—who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? —
5 he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger,
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