Job9:1 Then Job answered:
Job9:2 "Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God?
Job9:3 If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.
Job9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength-- who has resisted him, and succeeded?--
Job9:5 he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger;
Job9:6 who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
Job9:7 who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
Job9:8 who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the Sea;
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Job9:10 who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
Job9:11 Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Job9:12 He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?'
Job9:13 "God will not turn back his anger; the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.
Job9:14 How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
Job9:15 Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job9:16 If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
Job9:17 For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Job9:18 he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Job9:19 If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
Job9:20 Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job9:21 I am blameless; I do not know myself; I loathe my life.
Job9:22 It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
Job9:23 When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
Job9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it?
Job9:25 "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
Job9:26 They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
Job9:27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,'
Job9:28 I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
Job9:29 I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
Job9:30 If I wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job9:31 yet you will plunge me into filth, and my own clothes will abhor me.
Job9:32 For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
Job9:33 There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
Job9:34 If he would take his rod away from me, and not let dread of him terrify me,
Job9:35 then I would speak without fear of him, for I know I am not what I am thought to be.