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# Job 9

[1](#verse-1) Then Job answered,

[2](#verse-2) “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

[3](#verse-3) If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

[4](#verse-4) God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

[5](#verse-5) He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

[6](#verse-6) He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

[7](#verse-7) He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

[8](#verse-8) He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

[9](#verse-9) He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

[10](#verse-10) He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

[11](#verse-11) Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

[12](#verse-12) Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

[13](#verse-13) “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

[14](#verse-14) How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?

[15](#verse-15) Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

[16](#verse-16) If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

[17](#verse-17) For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

[18](#verse-18) He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

[19](#verse-19) If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

[20](#verse-20) Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

[21](#verse-21) I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

[22](#verse-22) “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

[23](#verse-23) If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

[24](#verse-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](#verse-25) “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

[26](#verse-26) They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

[27](#verse-27) If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’

[28](#verse-28) I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.

[29](#verse-29) I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

[30](#verse-30) If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

[31](#verse-31) yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

[32](#verse-32) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

[33](#verse-33) There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

[34](#verse-34) Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

[35](#verse-35) then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

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