Rotherham - Job - 9

9:1  Then responded Job, and said—

9:2  Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?

9:3  If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand:

9:4  Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!

9:5  Who removeth mountains, unawares, Who overturneth them in his anger;

9:6  Who shaketh the earth, out of its place, and, the pillars thereof, shudder;

9:7  Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;

9:8  Who spreadeth out fire heavens, by himself alone! and marcheth along, on the heights of the sea;

9:9  Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south;

9:10  Who doeth great things, past finding out, and marvels, beyond number.

9:11  Lo! he cometh upon me, yet can I not see him, Yea he passeth on, yet can I not discern him.

9:12  Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?

9:13  As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves—the proud helpers.

9:14  How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?

9:15  Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication.

9:16  Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.

9:17  For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

9:18  He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.

9:19  If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?

9:20  If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,—I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

9:21  I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!

9:22  One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end.

9:23  If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.

9:24  The earth, hath been given into the hand of a lawless one, The faces of her judges, he covereth, If not, then who is it?

9:25  My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.

9:26  They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture [which] rusheth upon food.

9:27  If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will lay aside my sad countenance, and brighten up,

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

9:29  I, shall be held guilty,—Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?

9:30  Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,

9:31  Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:

9:32  For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

9:33  There is not, between us, a mediator, who might lay his hand upon us both.

9:34  Let him take from off me his rod, and, his terror, let it not startle me:

9:35  I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself!