Job 9:1-21 ▼

1 Then Job answered,

2 |Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

4 For he is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

5 He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

7 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.

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

9 He makes Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, and the chambers of the south.

10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

11 Look, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He passes on also, but I do not perceive him.

12 Look, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

13 |God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make petition to my judge.

16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

17 For he bruises me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

19 If it is a matter of strength, look, he is mighty. And if of justice, who will summon him?

20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

21 I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.