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Job 9:3
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Job 9:3
3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
3If he will contend with him, he cannot answere him one of a thousand.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 9:3
To strive, dispute, or struggle earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Is unable to; is not able to.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A reply or response; as a verb, to reply, respond, or give account.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
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Open the full verse study2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
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Open the full verse study8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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Open the full verse study20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
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Open the full verse study15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
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Open the full verse study3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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Open the full verse study35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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Open the full verse study13Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
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Open the full verse study20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Open the full verse study32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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Open the full verse study12Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
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Open the full verse study12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
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Open the full verse study20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
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Open the full verse study14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
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