Job 9

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¹ And Job, responding, said:	¹ Then Job answered:
² Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.	² "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
³ If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.	³ If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
⁴ He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?	⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--
⁵ He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it.	⁵ he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
⁶ He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.	⁶ who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
⁷ He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.	⁷ who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
⁸ He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.	⁸ who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
⁹ He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.	⁹ who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
¹⁰ He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered.	¹⁰ who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
¹¹ If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will 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 suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?”	¹² Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? who will say to him, 'What doest thou?
¹³ God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry 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 exchange words with him?	¹⁴ How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
¹⁵ And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.	¹⁵ Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
¹⁶ And if he should listen to me when I call, I would 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 will 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 does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.	¹⁸ he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
¹⁹ If strength is sought, he is most strong; if equity in judgment, no one would dare to give testimony 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 wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.	²⁰ Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
²¹ And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.	²¹ I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
²² There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.	²² It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
²³ If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.	²³ When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
²⁴ Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?	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 messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.	²⁵ "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
²⁶ They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.	²⁶ They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
²⁷ If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured 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 have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.	²⁸ I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
²⁹ Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?	²⁹ I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
³⁰ If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,	³⁰ If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
³¹ yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.	³¹ yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
³² For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could 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 no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.	³³ There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
³⁴ Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.	³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
³⁵ I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.	³⁵ Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

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