Job 9:2-3, 20, 40:7-8, Isa 43:26, Rom 8:33-34, 2Cor 1:12 | ESV | STEP | Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God ?

Job 9:2-3

2 “Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man be ^ain the right before God?
3 If one wished to ^bcontend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

Job 9:20

20 Though I am in the right, ^cmy own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

Job 40:7-8

7 ^d“Dress for action ^{▼▼Hebrew Gird up your loins} like a man;
^fI will question you, and you make it known to me.
8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that ^gyou may be in the right?

Isaiah 43:26

26 Put me in remembrance; ^hlet us argue together;
set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

Romans 8:33-34

33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? ⁱIt is God who justifies. 34 ^jWho is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— ^kwho is at the right hand of God, ^lwho indeed is interceding for us. ^{▼▼Or Is it Christ Jesus who died . . . for us?}

2 Corinthians 1:12

Paul’s Change of Plans

12 For our boast is this, ⁿthe testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity ^{▼▼Some manuscripts holiness} and ^pgodly sincerity, ^qnot by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.