Job 9:4

"If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand."

Key Reflection

This verse highlights the immense power and unpredictability of God. It suggests that even if God chooses to confront someone, the individual cannot adequately respond or argue against Him, emphasizing God's supreme authority and the limitations of human understanding in such encounters.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He is wise in heart -Herder renders this, Even the wise and the powerful, Who hath withstood him and prospered? But the more common interpretation is to refer it to God. The meaning of Job appears to be, that God was a sagacious adversary; that he was able to manage his cause; that he could meet and refute all objections which could be urged; and that it would be in vain to engage in a litigation before him. He so well understood the whole ground of debate, and was so entirely skilled in the merits of the controversy, and could so successfully meet all that could be alleged, that it was useless to attempt to hold an argument with him.

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