“Indeed, I know that this is true.
    But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)

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

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“Truly I know it is so,
But how can a (A)man be (B)righteous before God?

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Though they wished to dispute with him,(A)
    they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.(B)

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If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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If one wished to [a]contend with Him,
He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

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  1. Job 9:3 argue

20 Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;
    if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.(A)

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20 If 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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20 Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me;
Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

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(A)How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be (B)pure who is born of a woman?

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If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

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(A)If You, Lord, should [a]mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could (B)stand?

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  1. Psalm 130:3 take note of

Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous(A) before you.

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And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

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Do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
(A)For in Your sight no one living is righteous.

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20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(A) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(B)

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20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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20 Therefore (A)by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,(A) have not attained their goal.(B)

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31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

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31 but Israel, (A)pursuing the law of righteousness, (B)has not attained to the law [a]of righteousness.

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  1. Romans 9:31 NU omits of righteousness

32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(A)

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32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

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32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, [a]by the works of the law. For (A)they stumbled at that stumbling stone.

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  1. Romans 9:32 NU by works, omitting of the law