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Job 9

¹Then Job answered,

²"Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

³If he is pleased to contend with him, He can`t answer him one time in a thousand.

⁴God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

⁵Who removes the mountains, and they don`t know it, When he overturns them in his anger

⁶Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;

⁷Who commands the sun, and it doesn`t rise, And seals up the stars;

⁸Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea;

⁹Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

¹⁰Who does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number.

¹¹Behold, he goes by me, and I don`t see him. He passes on also, but I don`t perceive him.

¹²Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, `What are you doing?`

¹³"God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

¹⁴How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?

¹⁵Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

¹⁶If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice.

¹⁷For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.

¹⁸He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.

¹⁹If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, `Who,` says he, `will summon me?`

²⁰Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

²¹I am blameless. I don`t regard myself. I despise my life.

²²"It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

²³If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

²⁴The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it?

²⁵"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

²⁶They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.

²⁷If I say, `I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;`

²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

²⁹I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

³⁰If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

³¹Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

³²For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

³³There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both.

³⁴Let him take his rod away from me, Let his terror not make me afraid:

³⁵Then I would speak, and not fear him, For I am not so in myself.

Job 9 (WEB)

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Job

Chapter 9

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