Job 9:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

I know it is so of a truth Namely, as you say, that God must be just and righteous; that purity and uprightness are qualities belonging to him; that he cannot possibly be biased or prejudiced in judging and determining the state and condition of mankind. I am likewise satisfied, that the time we have to live here is too short to compass any considerable points of knowledge; and that, whenever he pleases, he can exercise his power so as to change our exalted mirth to most bitter weeping, our highest joy to the most abject sorrow: can bring the most insolent offender to shame, and dispossess the wicked of his strongest and most magnificent situation. But how Hebrew, And how, should man Enosh, weak, frail man, imperfect as he is, be just with God? Be justified, or clear himself in God's account. I know that no man is absolutely holy and righteous, if God be severe to mark what is amiss in him.

Job 9:2

2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?