TheWay BibleJob 9:1 KJV
Job · chapter 9 · verse 1
Then Job answered and said,Job 9:1 · King James Version
Job 9:1 in context
1Then Job answered and said,
2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- answeredʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- JobʼÎyôwbIjob, the patriarch famous for his patienceH347 →
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Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth, Job 9:2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13