9:1 And Job answered and said, |
9:2 "Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God? |
9:3 If he desired to argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one time out of a thousand times. |
9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and has prospered; |
9:5 He Who removes the mountains, and they know it not when He overturns them in His anger; |
9:6 He Who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble; |
9:7 He commands the sun, and it does not rise; and seals up the stars; |
9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and walks on the waves of the sea; |
9:9 Who made the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south; |
9:10 Who is doing great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number? |
9:11 Behold! He goes by me, and I do not see Him; He passes on also, but I do not perceive Him. |
9:12 Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, 'What are You doing?' |
9:13 God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of the proud are bowed beneath Him. |
9:14 How much less shall I answer Him, and choose my words to reason with Him? |
9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet I could not answer; I would make supplication to My Judge. |
9:16 If I had called and He had answered me, yet I would not believe that He had 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 I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty! And if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? |
9:20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am blameless, He shall declare me perverse. |
9:21 Though I were blameless, yet I would not know myself. I would despise my life. |
9:22 It is all one; therefore I said, 'He is consuming the blameless and the wicked.' |
9:23 If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity 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 runner; they flee away, they see no good. |
9:26 They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey. |
9:27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will depart from my heaviness 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 am guilty; why then should I labor in vain? |
9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean, |
9:31 Yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me. |
9:32 For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in court; |
9:33 There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both. |
9:34 Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His fear make me afraid; |
9:35 Then would I speak and not fear Him; but it is not so with me." |