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Chapter 9
- 9:1
- Then Job answered and said,
- 9:2
- I know it is so of a truth: but
how should man be just with God?
- 9:3
- If he will contend with him, he
cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- 9:4
- He is wise in heart, and mighty in
strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
- 9:5
- Which removeth the mountains, and
they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
- 9:6
- Which shaketh the earth out of her
place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- 9:7
- Which commandeth the sun, and it
riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
- 9:8
- Which alone spreadeth out the
heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
- 9:9
- Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and
Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
- 9:10
- Which doeth great things past
finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- 9:11
- Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him
not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
- 9:12
- Behold, he taketh away, who can
hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
- 9:13
- If God will not withdraw his
anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
- 9:14
- How much less shall I answer him,
and choose out my words to reason with him?
- 9:15
- Whom, though I were righteous, yet
would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- 9:16
- If I had called, and he had
answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my
voice.
- 9:17
- For he breaketh me with a tempest,
and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- 9:18
- He will not suffer me to take my
breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
- 9:19
- If I speak of strength, lo, he is
strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
- 9:20
- If I justify myself, mine own
mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me
perverse.
- 9:21
- Though I were perfect, yet would I
not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- 9:22
- This is one thing, therefore I
said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- 9:23
- If the scourge slay suddenly, he
will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
- 9:24
- 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?
- 9:25
- Now my days are swifter than a
post: they flee away, they see no good.
- 9:26
- They are passed away as the swift
ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
- 9:27
- If I say, I will forget my
complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- 9:28
- I am afraid of all my sorrows, I
know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- 9:29
- If I be wicked, why then labour I
in vain?
- 9:30
- If I wash myself with snow water,
and make my hands never so clean;
- 9:31
- Yet shalt thou plunge me in the
ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- 9:32
- For he is not a man, as I am, that
I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
- 9:33
- Neither is there any daysman
betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
- 9:34
- Let him take his rod away from me,
and let not his fear terrify me:
- 9:35
- Then would I speak, and not fear
him; but it is not so with me.
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