Job 9

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¹ And Job answered, and said:	¹ Then Job answered:
² Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with	² "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
³ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.	³ If one wished to contend with him, one 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 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--
⁵ Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.	⁵ he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
⁶ Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.	⁶ who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
⁷ Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:	⁷ who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
⁸ Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.	⁸ who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
⁹ Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.	⁹ who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
¹⁰ Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.	¹⁰ who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
¹¹ If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.	¹¹ Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
¹² If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?	¹² Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? who will say to him, 'What doest thou?
¹³ God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.	¹³ "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
¹⁴ What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?	¹⁴ How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
¹⁵ I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.	¹⁵ Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
¹⁶ And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.	¹⁶ If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
¹⁷ For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.	¹⁷ For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
¹⁸ He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.	¹⁸ he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
¹⁹ If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.	¹⁹ If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
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 am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
²¹ Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.	²¹ I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe 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, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
²³ If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.	²³ When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity 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 hand 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 good.
²⁶ They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.	²⁶ They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the 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 complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,'
²⁸ I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.	²⁸ I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
²⁹ But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?	²⁹ I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
³⁰ If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean :	³⁰ If I 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 thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will 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, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
³³ There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.	³³ There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.	³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
³⁵ I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.	³⁵ Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

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