AFV2020 - Job - 9

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."