Job 9:3

World English Bible

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

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Job 9:3 in other translations

If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Job 9:3 · American Standard Version

Job 9:3 in context

  1. 1Then Job answered,
  2. 2“Truly I know that it is so,
    but how can man be just with God?
  3. 3If he is pleased to contend with him,
    he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
  4. 4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:
    who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
  5. 5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
    when he overturns them in his anger.