Job 9:22-35 ▼

22 This is one poynt, and therefore I sayd, He destroyeth both the perfect and vngodly.

23 And though he slay sodaynly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.

24 As for the worlde it is geuen ouer into the hande of the wicked, and he shall couer the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he, or who is he that can shewe the contrarie?

25 My dayes are more swyft then a runner, they are gone & haue seene no good thing.

26 They are passed away as the shippes that be good vnder sayle, & as the eagle that fleeth to the pray.

27 If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, and comfort my selfe:

28 Then am I afrayde of all my sorowes, for I knowe that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vayne?

30 If I washe my selfe with snowe water, and make myne handes neuer so cleane at the well:

31 Yet shalt thou dippe me in the myre, and mine owne clothes shal defile me.

32 For he that I must geue aunswere vnto, and with whom I go to the lawe, is not a man as I am:

33 Neither is there any dayesman to lay his hande betweene vs.

34 Let hym take his rodde away from me, yea let hym make me no more afrayde of him,

35 And then shall I aunswere hym without any feare: but because I am not so, I holde me still.