ACV - Job - 9

9:1  Then Job answered and said,

9:2  Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

9:3  If he is pleased to 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 prospered?

9:5  He who removes the mountains, and they do not know it when he overturns them in his anger,

9:6  who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble,

9:7  who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars,

9:8  who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,

9:9  who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,

9:10  who does great things past finding out, yea, marvelous things without number.

9:11  Lo, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.

9:12  Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?

9:13  God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab 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 I would 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 hearkened 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 of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?

9:20  Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

9:21  Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

9:22  It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

9:23  If the scourge kills 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 of it. If not he, who then is it?

9:25  Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

9:26  They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

9:27  If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,

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

9:29  I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

9:30  If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

9:31  yet thou will 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, that we should come together in judgment.

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 terror make me afraid.

9:35  Then I would speak, and not be afraid of him, for I am not so in myself.