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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength--who has resisted him and remained safe? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars; |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, 'What are you doing?' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice-- |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, 'Who will summon me?' |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"It is all one! That is why I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the guilty.' |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, 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"My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,' |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me. |
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