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"Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

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The Ultimate Question

Job agrees with his friends that God is just. He then pivots to what commentators call the most important question ever asked: "How can man be just with God?" This isn't a challenge to God's fairness but a deep acknowledgment of the vast gap between human sinfulness and God's perfect holiness.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Job 9:2

18th Century

Theologian

I know this is true – Job here refers, undoubtedly, to something that had been said before; but whether it is to the general line of reasoni…

John Gill

John Gill

On Job 9:2

17th Century

Pastor

I know [it is] so of a truth
That is, that God is just, and does not pervert justice and judgment, as Bildad had obs…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Job 9:1–13

17th Century

Minister

In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied being a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before…