If he is pleased to contend with him,
he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 9:3 in context
Job 9:1–6
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Then Job answered,
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“Truly I know that it is so,
but how can man be just with God?
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If he is pleased to contend with him,
he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
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God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
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He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
when he overturns them in his anger.
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He shakes the earth out of its place.
Its pillars tremble.
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