Job 9:2 Meaning and Explanation
“I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job agrees that God is just, then raises the question that drives the whole chapter: how can a mortal be righteous before God.
What Does Job 9:2 Mean?
Job concedes Bildad's premise that God is upright, but he presses past it to the real difficulty. He is not asking how to win an argument; he is asking how a frail human being can ever be declared right in the presence of the Almighty. The question is as old as conscience and as wide as the human race.
This is one of the great questions of all Scripture, and it will not find its full answer until One comes who makes the unrighteous righteous. Job feels the weight of the gap between Creator and creature; he cannot yet see the bridge. To ask honestly how a person can be just with God is already to be reaching, in the dark, toward grace.
Job 9:2 in the Original Language
tsadaq (צָדַק), 'be just' -- to be in the right, declared righteous, as in a court of law.
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What does Job 9:2 mean?
Job agrees that God is just, then raises the question that drives the whole chapter: how can a mortal be righteous before God.