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1Then Job replied:

1This was Job's response:

2"Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?

2"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

3Though they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.

3If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.

4His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?

4He is wise in heart and strong in will— who can be stubborn against him and succeed?

5He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his anger.

5"He removes mountains without their knowledge, overthrowing them in his anger.

6He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.

6He shakes the earth from its orbit, so that its foundations shudder.

7He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.

7He commands the sun so that it doesn't shine and seals up the stars.

8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

8He alone spreads out the heavens, he walks on the waves of the sea.

9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

9He created Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the southern constellations.

10He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.

10He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.

11When he passes me, I cannot see him; when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

11"If he were to pass near me, I wouldn't notice; if he moves by, I wouldn't perceive him.

12If he snatches away, who can stop him? Who can say to him, 'What are you doing?'

12Indeed, if he snatches someone away, who could restrain him? Who can say to him, 'What are you doing?'

13God does not restrain his anger; even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.

13"God doesn't restrain his anger. Rahab's assistants are humiliated under him.

14"How then can I dispute with him? How can I find words to argue with him?

14So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?

15Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.

15Even if I'm in the right, I cannot answer him. I can only appeal for mercy.

16Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing.

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.

17He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.

17For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.

18He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery.

18He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness.

19If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can challenge him?

19"Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger! Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him?

20Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.

20Though I'm in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I'm blameless, he'll pronounce me as guilty.

21"Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

21"I'm blameless; I don't know myself; I despise my life.

22It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'

22I say it's all the same— he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.

23When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

23If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.

24When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

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"My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.

25"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.

26They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

26They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,'

27If I were to say, 'Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,

28I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

28then I still dread all of my suffering; I know you still won't acquit me.

29Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

29I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility?

30Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder,

30"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

31you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.

31you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me.

32"He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.

32He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

33If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together,

33There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,

34someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.

34removing his rod from me, and not letting terror of him overwhelm me.

35Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

35Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."

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