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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This was Job's response: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He is wise in heart and strong in will— who can be stubborn against him and succeed? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"He removes mountains without their knowledge, overthrowing them in his anger. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He shakes the earth from its orbit, so that its foundations shudder. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He commands the sun so that it doesn't shine and seals up the stars. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He alone spreads out the heavens, he walks on the waves of the sea. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He created Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the southern constellations. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"If he were to pass near me, I wouldn't notice; if he moves by, I wouldn't perceive him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Indeed, if he snatches someone away, who could restrain him? Who can say to him, 'What are you doing?' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"God doesn't restrain his anger. Rahab's assistants are humiliated under him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Even if I'm in the right, I cannot answer him. I can only appeal for mercy. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger! Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Though I'm in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I'm blameless, he'll pronounce me as guilty. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"I'm blameless; I don't know myself; I despise my life. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22I say it's all the same— he destroys both the blameless and the guilty. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24A land is given into the hands of a wicked person; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not God, then who is it?" |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If I were to say, 'Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28then I still dread all of my suffering; I know you still won't acquit me. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34removing his rod from me, and not letting terror of him overwhelm me. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself." |
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