Job 9:1-2

1 Then Job ['Iyowb] answered [`anah] and said ['amar],

2 I know [yada`] it is so of a truth ['omnam]: but how should man ['enowsh] be just [tsadaq] with God ['el]? KJV-Interlinear

1 Then Job answered, 2 'In truth I know that this is so, But how can a man be in the right before God? NASB

Job answers Bildad, and in effect agrees with what he has said, with respect to God supporting the righteous and not supporting the wicked.

Bildad's inference however, that the circumstances of ones life determines ones status before God, is not agreed to by Job.

We already know that many believers throughout history have suffered tremendously. Likewise, many wicked prosper in history. However, it is not the duration of ones life that is evaluated, but the sum total of ones life, which is evaluated at the end of ones life.

And furthermore, it is not the worldly accomplishments, or lack of them, that are evaluated, but the spiritual resources within a person which receive Gods examination.

Psa. 143:2

2 And do not enter into judgment with Thy servant, For in Thy sight no man living is righteous. NASB

Man has no resources within himself, with which to rise above his flaws. Man needs outside assistance in order to extricate himself out of his condemnation pit.

And so we have the beginning of Jobs response to Bildad.

Note that Bildad began his remarks with Job, complaining that he, Job, talked too much.

Bildad suggests that any person who is right before God, will be supported by God. So, Job questions first, who is righteous, and second, how do they get that way?

Job does not react to Bildad's initial remarks. Job ignores the insults from Bildad, and sticks with the issue - God verses man, righteousness verses unrighteousness.

If God were to deal with man at mans natural level, we would all be cooked. Man is unequal with God. God is infinite, and man is nothing more than dust and air. God created everything, whereas man has never created out of nothing, anything. It is really a no contest, situation.

Stood up beside God, man sinks to an insignificant level that is too small to even measure. Anyone who thinks rather highly of themselves, in any way, is best described as a fool.

How can anyone be right before God? Well, on their own, no one can. Righteousness has to come from some other source, other than from man himself, that is.

Dust cannot make itself into something better than dust. What human being do you know that was not born flesh and blood? Man cannot exhale any better air than he inhales. Whom do you know that has invented a truth, which has never existed before?

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