engKJVCPB: Job 9

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 [1] Then Job answered and said,

[2] I know it is so of a truth:

But how should man be just with God?

[3] If he will contend with him,

He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

[4] He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:

Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

[5] Which removeth the mountains, and they know not:

Which overturneth them in his anger.

[6] Which shaketh the earth out of her place,

And the pillars thereof tremble.

[7] Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not;

And sealeth up the stars.

[8] Which alone spreadeth out the heavens,

And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

[9] Which maketh Arcturus, Orion,

And Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

[10] Which doeth great things past finding out;

Yea, and wonders without number.

[11] Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not:

He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

[12] Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?

Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

[13] If God will not withdraw his anger,

The proud helpers do stoop under him.

[14] How much less shall I answer him,

And choose out my words to reason with him?

[15] Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer,

But I would make supplication to my judge.

[16] If I had called, and he had answered me;

Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

[17] For he breaketh me with a tempest,

And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

[18] He will not suffer me to take my breath,

But filleth me with bitterness.

[19] If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong:

And if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

[20] If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:

If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

[21] Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul:

I would despise my life.

[22] This is one thing, therefore I said it,

He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

[23] If the scourge slay suddenly,

He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

[24] The earth is given into the hand of the wicked:

He covereth the faces of the judges thereof;

If not, where, and who is he?

[25] Now my days are swifter than a post:

They flee away, they see no good.

[26] They are passed away as the swift ships:

As the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

[27] If I say, I will forget my complaint,

I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

[28] I am afraid of all my sorrows,

I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

[29] If I be wicked,

Why then labour I in vain?

[30] If I wash myself with snow water,

And make my hands never so clean;

[31] Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,

And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

[32] For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,

And we should come together in judgment.

[33] Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,

That might lay his hand upon us both.

[34] Let him take his rod away from me,

And let not his fear terrify me:

[35] Then would I speak, and not fear him;

But it is not so with me.

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