Job 9

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1. (Job 9:1) Then Job answered,
2. (Job 9:2) "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3. (Job 9:3) If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
4. (Job 9:4) God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
5. (Job 9:5) He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6. (Job 9:6) He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
7. (Job 9:7) He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.
8. (Job 9:8) He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9. (Job 9:9) He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
10. (Job 9:10) He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
11. (Job 9:11) Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
12. (Job 9:12) Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
13. (Job 9:13) "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14. (Job 9:14) How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
15. (Job 9:15) Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16. (Job 9:16) If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
17. (Job 9:17) For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18. (Job 9:18) He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19. (Job 9:19) If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
20. (Job 9:20) Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
21. (Job 9:21) I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
22. (Job 9:22) "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23. (Job 9:23) If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24. (Job 9:24) The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25. (Job 9:25) "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,
26. (Job 9:26) They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27. (Job 9:27) If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
28. (Job 9:28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29. (Job 9:29) I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
30. (Job 9:30) If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31. (Job 9:31) yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
32. (Job 9:32) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
33. (Job 9:33) There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
34. (Job 9:34) Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
35. (Job 9:35) then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.