Job 9
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[an error occurred while processing this directive]New American Standard Bible 1995
1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1Then Job answered,
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2"In truth I know that this is so; But how can a man be in the right before God?
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3"If one wished to dispute with Him, He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4"Wise in heart and mighty in strength, Who has defied Him without harm?
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5"It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how, When He overturns them in His anger;
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6Who shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble;
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7Who commands the sun not to shine, And sets a seal upon the stars;
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8Who alone stretches out the heavens And tramples down the waves of the sea;
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10Who does great things, unfathomable, And wondrous works without number.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11"Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; Were He to move past me, I would not perceive Him.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12"Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him? Who could say to Him, 'What are You doing?'
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13"God will not turn back His anger; Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab.
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14"How then can I answer Him, And choose my words before Him?
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15"For though I were right, I could not answer; I would have to implore the mercy of my judge.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16"If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17"For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18"He will not allow me to get my breath, But saturates me with bitterness.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19"If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20"Though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty.
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21"I am guiltless; I do not take notice of myself; I despise my life.
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22"It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys the guiltless and the wicked.'
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23"If the scourge kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24"The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25"Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26"They slip by like reed boats, Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27"Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance and be cheerful,'
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28I am afraid of all my pains, I know that You will not acquit me.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29"I am accounted wicked, Why then should I toil in vain?
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30"If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31Yet You would plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes would abhor me.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32"For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him, That we may go to court together.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33"There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34"Let Him remove His rod from me, And let not dread of Him terrify me.
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35"Then I would speak and not fear Him; But I am not like that in myself.
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