RWebster - Job - 9

9:1  Then Job answered and said,

9:2  I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

9:3  If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one time out of a thousand.

9:4  He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

9:5  Who removeth the mountains, and they know not: who overturneth them in his anger.

9:6  Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble.

9:7  Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

9:8  Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

9:9  Who maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

9:10  Who doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

9:11  Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

9:12  Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What doest thou?

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 I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.

9:17  For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

9:18  He will not allow me to take my breath, but filleth 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, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also shall prove me perverse.

9:21  Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

9:22  This isonething, therefore I saidit, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

9:23  If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

9:24  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of its judges; 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 hasteth to the prey.

9:27  If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my heaviness, and comfort myself :

9:28  I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

9:29  If I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

9:30  If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

9:31  Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor 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 mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

9:34  Let him take away his rod 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.