◄ Job 9 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1Then Job answered:
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2Yes, I know what you've said is true, but how can a person be justified before God?
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3If one wanted to take him to court, he could not answer God once in a thousand times.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4God is wise and all-powerful. Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5He removes mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his anger.
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6He shakes the earth from its place so that its pillars tremble.
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7He commands the sun not to shine and seals off the stars.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9He makes the stars: the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11If he passed by me, I wouldn't see him; if he went by, I wouldn't recognize him.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12If he snatches something, who can stop him? Who can ask him, "What are you doing?"
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13God does not hold back his anger; Rahab's assistants cringe in fear beneath him!
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14How then can I answer him or choose my arguments against him?
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15Even if I were in the right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18He doesn't let me catch my breath but fills me with bitter experiences.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19If it is a matter of strength, look, he is the powerful one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21Though I am blameless, I no longer care about myself; I renounce my life.
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22It is all the same. Therefore I say, "He destroys both the blameless and the wicked."
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23When catastrophe brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24The earth is handed over to the wicked; he blindfolds its judges. If it isn't he, then who is it?
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25My days fly by faster than a runner; they flee without seeing any good.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26They sweep by like boats made of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27If I said, "I will forget my complaint, change my expression, and smile,"
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know you will not acquit me.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29Since I will be found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32For he is not a man like me, that I can answer him, that we can take each other to court.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand on both of us.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34Let him take his rod away from me so his terror will no longer frighten me.
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35Then I would speak and not fear him. But that is not the case; I am on my own.
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