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Job 9:3
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
Job 9:3 · World English Bible
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 Then Job answered,
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
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