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Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
Job 9:3 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Job 9:3 in other translations
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
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In context
1 And Job answered, and said:
2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.
3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?
5 Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.
6 Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
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