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Job 9:1-3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

Chapter 9

Job’s Second Reply. 1 Then Job answered and said:

2 I know well that it is so;
    but how can anyone be in the right before God?
3 Should one wish to contend with him,[a]
    he could not answer him once in a thousand times.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:3 Job begins to explore the possibility of challenging God in a lawsuit, a theme that will recur (10:2), but he knows the odds are against him (vv. 12–20).
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