Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 9:20, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
- Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Job 34:35
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
- Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of…
- Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
- Proverbs 17:20
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
- James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
- Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have …
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.