🌪️WEB · Job 9:3

What does Job 9:3 mean?

"If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand."

— Job 9:3 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Then Job answered,

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“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

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If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

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God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

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He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

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He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

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