Job 9

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 is wise in heart , and mighty in strength .

Who has hardened himself against him and prospered ?

5He removes the mountains , and they don’t know it ,

when he overturns them in his anger.

6He shakes the earth out of its place .

Its pillars tremble .

7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise ,

and seals up the stars .

8He alone stretches out the heavens ,

and treads on the waves of the sea .

9He makes the Bear , Orion , and the Pleiades ,

and the rooms of the south .

10He does great things past finding out ;

yes, marvellous 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 will I answer him ,

and choose my words to argue with him ?

15Though I were righteous , yet I wouldn’t answer him .

I would make supplication to my judge .

16If I had called , and he had answered me ,

yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice .

17For he breaks me with a storm ,

and multiplies my wounds without cause .

18He will not allow me to catch 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 will condemn me .

Though I am blameless , it will prove me perverse .

21I am blameless .

I don’t respect 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 its judges .

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 will be condemned .

Why then do I labour 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 will abhor me .

32For he is not a man , as I am, that I should answer him ,

that we should come together in judgement.

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.

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