Job 9

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 And Job answered, and said:	1 Then Job answered and said:
2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with	2 I know well that it is so; but how can a man be justified before God?
3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.	3 Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace ?	4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained unscathed?
5 Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.	5 He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger.
6 Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.	6 He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble.
7 Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:	7 He commands the sun, and it rises not; he seals up the stars.
8 Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.	8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the crests of the sea.
9 Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.	9 He made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south;
10 Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.	10 He does great things past finding out, marvelous things beyond reckoning.
11 If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.	11 Should he come near me, I see him not; should he pass by, I am not aware of him;
12 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?	12 Should he seize me forcibly, who can say him nay? Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
13 God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.	13 He is God and he does not relent; the helpers of Rahab bow beneath him.
14 What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?	14 How much less shall I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him!
15 I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.	15 Even though I were right, I could not answer him, but should rather beg for what was due me.
16 And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.	16 If I appealed to him and he answered my call, I could not believe that he would hearken to my words;
17 For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.	17 With a tempest he might overwhelm me, and multiply my wounds without cause;
18 He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.	18 He need not suffer me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs.
19 If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.	19 If it be a question of strength, he is mighty; and if of judgment, who will call him to account?
20 If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.	20 Though I were right, my own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, he might put me in the wrong.
21 Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.	21 Though I am innocent, I myself cannot know it; I despise my life.
22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.	22 It is all one! therefore I say: Both the innocent and the wicked he destroys.
23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.	23 When the scourge slays suddenly, he laughs at the despair of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?	24 The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not he, who then is it?
25 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.	25 My days are swifter than a runner, they flee away; they see no happiness;
26 They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.	26 They shoot by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping upon its prey.
27 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.	27 If I say: I will forget my complaining, I will lay aside my sadness and be of good cheer,
28 I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.	28 Then I am in dread of all my pains; I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29 But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?	29 If I must be accounted guilty, why then should I strive in vain?
30 If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean :	30 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,	31 Yet you would plunge me in the ditch, so that my garments would abhor me.
32 For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.	32 For he is not a man like myself, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
33 There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.	33 Would that there were an arbiter between us, who could lay his hand upon us both
34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.	34 and withdraw his rod from me. Would that his terrors did not frighten me;
35 I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.	35 that I might speak without being afraid of him. Since this is not the case with me,