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9:1 Then Job answered and said,
9:2 Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can common man be just with God? 9:3 If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one of a thousand. 9:4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?-- 9:5 [Him] who removes the mountains, and they do not know it, When he overturns them in his anger; 9:6 Who shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble; 9:7 Who commands the sun, and it does not rise, And seals up the stars; 9:8 Who alone stretches out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea; 9:9 Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south; 9:10 Who does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number. 9:11 Look, he goes by me, and I don't see him: He passes on also, but I don't perceive him. 9:12 Look, he seizes [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are you doing? 9:13 God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. 9:14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words [to reason] with him? 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I would plead for mercy to my judge. 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet I would not believe that he listened to my voice. 9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause. 9:18 He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness. 9:19 If [we speak] of strength, look, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [he says,] will summon me? 9:20 Though I be righteous, my own mouth will condemn me: Though I be perfect, it will prove me perverse. 9:21 I am perfect; I do not regard my soul; I despise my life. 9:22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked. 9:23 If the scourge slays suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent. 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges: If [it is] not [he], then who is it? 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good. 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoops on the prey. 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer; 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. 9:29 I will be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain? 9:30 If I wash myself with snow, And clean my hands with lye; 9:31 Yet you will plunge me in the pit, And my own clothes will be disgusted with me. 9:32 For he is not a man as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment. 9:33 If only there were an umpire between us That might lay his hand on us both, 9:34 [Then] he would take his rod away from me, And his terror would not make me afraid. 9:35 Then I would speak and not fear him; For I am not so in myself. |
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