Job Chapter 9 (ESV)

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undefined Then Job answered and said:

undefined “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

undefined If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

undefined He is wise in heart and mighty in strength — who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? —

undefined he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger,

undefined who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

undefined who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;

undefined who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;

undefined who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;

undefined who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.

undefined Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

undefined Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

undefined “God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

undefined How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

undefined Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

undefined If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

undefined For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;

undefined he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

undefined If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

undefined Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

undefined I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

undefined It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

undefined When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

undefined 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?

undefined “My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

undefined They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

undefined If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’

undefined I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

undefined I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

undefined If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

undefined yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

undefined For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

undefined There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

undefined Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.

undefined Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

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