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JOB ยท Chapter 9
9:1 Then Job answered and said,
9:2 I know it is so truthfully: but how should man be just with God?
9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself
against him, and has prospered?
9:5 Which removes the mountains, and they know not: which overturns
them in his anger.
9:6 Which shakes the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof
tremble.
9:7 Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
9:8 Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves
of the sea.
9:9 Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of
the south.
9:10 Which does great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without
number.
9:11 Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I
perceive him not.
9:12 Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him,
What do you?
9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do 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 would I not answer, but I would
make supplication to my judge.
9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe
that he had hearkened unto my voice.
9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without
cause.
9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment,
who shall set me a time to plead?
9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say,
I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise
my life.
9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect
and the wicked.
9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the
innocent.
9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the
faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
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 hastes
to the prey.
9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness,
and comfort myself:
9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me
innocent.
9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
9:31 Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall
detest me.
9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
should come together in judgment.
9:33 Neither is there any arbitrator between us, that might lay his
hand upon us both.
9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify
me:
9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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