Cross references

Job 9:3

If one wished to contend with God,

he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

Job 9:3 BSB
  1. a Or If God wished to contend with someone

Job 9:3 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 10:2 (5 votes) and Job 40:2 (4 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Ezra 9 to 1 John 3.

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Which verses does Job 9:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 10:25 votes

    I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

  2. Job 40:24 votes

    “Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

  3. Job 9:202 votes

    Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

  4. For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court. Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

  5. If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat. I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. …

  6. (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment. Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown. …

  7. Job 33:132 votes

    Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

  8. Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

  9. For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

  10. For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite. For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.

  11. But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

  12. 1 John 1:82 votes

    If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

  13. Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

Which verses point to Job 9:3?

The 10 strongest of 17.