John Trapp on Job 9:2

Verſe 2. I know it is ſo of a truth] Bildads argument was, God who hath puniſhed thee is juſt, therefore thou art unjuſt. Job grants the Antecedent here, but denies and refutes the conſequent, verſe 22, 23. &c. To Eliphaz alſo Job grants, not only that man could not be more juſt then God, as he had ſaid, chap. 4.3. but alſo that none could ever be found ſo juſt, that he might any way be compared to God: Job is one of thoſe Candidates of Immortality, who can do nothing againſt the truth; but for the truth, 2 Cor. 13.8. every parcel whereof he accounted precious, and could not but be a friend to it, though brought by them who ſeemed his enemies; this ſpoke him ingenuous and humble, a well-tempered champion for the truth: Athanaſius is ſaid to be ſuch another, and ſo Mr. Bucer. Helvidius is taxed by Hierome, for the contrary, and B. Mountague, by D. Rivet.

But how ſhould man be juſt with God?] Mr. Broughton tranſlateth, And how can man be juſt before the Omnipotent? Sorry, ſickly, wretched man, how can he be juſt (ſc. by an inherent righteouſneſſe; by an imputed he may) before the moſt Holy and Almighty God; or compared to him? Job afterwards ſetting himſelf by God, and conſidering the infinite diſtance and diſproportion, crieth out, I abhor my ſelf; and repent in duſt and aſhes, chap. 42.5, 6. I ſay likewiſe, Woe is me, for I am undone, chap. 6.5. He that hath looked a while intentively upon the body of the Sun, is ſo dazeled with the beams thereof, that he can ſee nothing.