Job 9:1

Job’s Third Speech: A Response to Bildad

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.

Job 9:1 In-Context

1 Then Job answered and said,

2 "Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

3 If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.

4 [He is] wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

5 "[He is the one] who moves mountains, and they do not know [how], who overturns them in his anger.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "And"