Geneva1599 - Job - 9

9:1  Then Iob answered, and sayd,

9:2  I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

9:3  If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand.

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

9:5  He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.

9:6  Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake.

9:7  He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.

9:8  Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea.

9:9  He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.

9:10  He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.

9:11  Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not.

9:12  Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

9:13  God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him.

9:14  Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?

9:15  For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.

9:16  If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.

9:17  For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause.

9:18  He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.

9:19  If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

9:20  If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.

9:21  Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.

9:22  This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.

9:23  If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

9:24  The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?

9:25  My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

9:26  They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

9:27  If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

9:28  Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

9:29  If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?

9:30  If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,

9:31  Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.

9:32  For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

9:33  Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

9:34  Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

9:35  Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.