NHEBME - Job - 9

9:1  Then Job answered,

9:2  "Truly 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 can't answer him one time in a thousand.

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

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

9:6  He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

9:7  He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.

9:8  He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

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

9:10  He does great things past finding out; yes, 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 snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you 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 my words to argue with him?

9:15  Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

9:16  If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

9:17  For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

9:18  He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

9:19  If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

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

9:21  I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

9:22  "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

9:23  If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

9:24  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If 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 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 face, and cheer up;'

9:28  I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you 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, and cleanse my hands with lye,

9:31  yet you will plunge me in the ditch. 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, that might lay his hand on us both.

9:34  Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

9:35  then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.