Job 9 — BSB
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Job: How Can I Contend with God?
9Verse 1Then Job answered:Verse 2“Yes, I know that it is so,but how can a mortal be righteous before God?Verse 3If one wished to contend with God,+he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.Verse 4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength.Who has resisted Him and prospered?Verse 5He moves mountains without their knowledgeand overturns them in His anger.Verse 6He shakes the earth from its place,so that its foundations tremble.Verse 7He commands the sun not to shine;+He seals off the stars.Verse 8He alone stretches out the heavensand treads on the waves of the sea.Verse 9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.Verse 10He does great things beyond searching out,and wonders without number.Verse 11Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him;were He to move, I would not recognize Him.Verse 12If He takes away,+who can stop Him?Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’Verse 13God does not restrain His anger;the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.Verse 14How then can I answer Himor choose my arguments against Him?Verse 15For even if I were right, I could not answer.I could only beg my Judge for mercy.Verse 16If I summoned Him and He answered me,I do not believe He would listen to my voice.Verse 17For He would crush me with a tempestand multiply my wounds without cause.Verse 18He does not let me catch my breath,but overwhelms me with bitterness.Verse 19If it is a matter of strength,He is indeed mighty!If it is a matter of justice,who can summon Him+?Verse 20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me;if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.+Verse 21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself;I despise my own life.Verse 22It is all the same, and so I say,‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’Verse 23When the scourge brings sudden death,He mocks the despair of the innocent.Verse 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;He blindfolds its judges.If it is not He, then who is it?Verse 25My days are swifter than a runner;they flee without seeing good.Verse 26They sweep by like boats of papyrus,like an eagle swooping down on its prey.Verse 27If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaintand change my expression and smile,’Verse 28I would still dread all my sufferings;I know that You will not acquit me.Verse 29Since I am already found guilty,why should I labor in vain?Verse 30If I should wash myself with snow+and cleanse my hands with lye,Verse 31then You would plunge me into the pit,and even my own clothes would despise me.Verse 32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him,that we can take each other to court.Verse 33Nor is there a mediator between us,to lay his hand upon us both.Verse 34Let Him remove His rod from me,so that His terror will no longer frighten me.Verse 35Then I would speak without fear of Him.But as it is, I am on my own.