Job 9 — UBES

9Verse 1Then Job answered and said,^{Verse 2}I know of a truth that it is so:
For how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?
^{Verse 3}For if he would enter into judgment with him,
God would not hearken to him,
So that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.
^{Verse 4}For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great:
Who has hardened himself against him and endured?
^{Verse 5}Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not:
Who overturns them in anger.
^{Verse 6}Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations,
And its pillars totter.
^{Verse 7}Who commands the sun, and it rises not;
And he seals up the stars.
^{Verse 8}Who alone has stretched out the heavens,
And walks on the sea as on firm ground.
^{Verse 9}Who makes Pleiades, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.
^{Verse 10}Who does great and unsearchable things;
Glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.^{Verse 11}If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him:
If he should pass by me, neither thus have I known it.
^{Verse 12}If he would take away, who shall turn him back?
Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?
^{Verse 13}For if he has turned away his anger,
The whales under heaven have stooped under him.^{Verse 14}Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.
^{Verse 15}For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me:
I will entreat his judgment.
^{Verse 16}And if I should call and he should not hearken,
I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.^{Verse 17}Let him not crush me with a dark storm:
But he has made my bruises many without cause.
^{Verse 18}For he suffers me not to take breath,
But he has filled me with bitterness.
^{Verse 19}For indeed he is strong in power:
Who then shall resist his judgment?
^{Verse 20}For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane:
And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
^{Verse 21}For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul:
But my life is taken away.^{Verse 22}Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
^{Verse 23}For the worthless die,
But the righteous are laughed to scorn.
^{Verse 24}For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man:
He covers the faces of the judges of the earth:
But if it be not he, who is it?
^{Verse 25}But my life is swifter than a post:
My days have fled away, and they knew it not.
^{Verse 26}Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships?
Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?
^{Verse 27}And if I should say, I will forget to speak,
I will bow down my face and groan;
^{Verse 28}I quake in all my limbs,
For I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.^{Verse 29}But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
^{Verse 30}For if I should wash myself with snow,
And purge myself with pure hands,
^{Verse 31}Thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth,
And my garment had abhorred me.
^{Verse 32}For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend,
That we might come together to judgment.
^{Verse 33}Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover,
And one who should hear the cause between both.
^{Verse 34}Let him remove his rod from me,
And let not his fear terrify me:
^{Verse 35}So shall I not be afraid, but I will speak:
For I am not thus conscious of guilt.