Job 9 — KJVCP

9Verse 1Then Job answered and said,^{Verse 2}I know it is so of a truth:
But how should man be just with God?
^{Verse 3}If he will contend with him,
He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
^{Verse 4}He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:
Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?^{Verse 5}Which removeth the mountains, and they know not:
Which overturneth them in his anger.
^{Verse 6}Which shaketh the earth out of her place,
And the pillars thereof tremble.
^{Verse 7}Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not;
And sealeth up the stars.^{Verse 8}Which alone spreadeth out the heavens,
And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
^{Verse 9}Which maketh Arcturus, Orion,
And Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
^{Verse 10}Which doeth great things past finding out;
Yea, and wonders without number.^{Verse 11}Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not:
He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
^{Verse 12}Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?
Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
^{Verse 13}If God will not withdraw his anger,
The proud helpers do stoop under him.
^{Verse 14}How much less shall I answer him,
And choose out my words to reason with him?
^{Verse 15}Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer,
But I would make supplication to my judge.^{Verse 16}If I had called, and he had answered me;
Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
^{Verse 17}For he breaketh me with a tempest,
And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
^{Verse 18}He will not suffer me to take my breath,
But filleth me with bitterness.
^{Verse 19}If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong:
And if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
^{Verse 20}If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:
If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
^{Verse 21}Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul:
I would despise my life.
^{Verse 22}This is one thing, therefore I said it,
He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
^{Verse 23}If the scourge slay suddenly,
He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
^{Verse 24}The earth is given into the hand of the wicked:
He covereth the faces of the judges thereof;
If not, where, and who is he?^{Verse 25}Now my days are swifter than a post:
They flee away, they see no good.
^{Verse 26}They are passed away as the swift ships:
As the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
^{Verse 27}If I say, I will forget my complaint,
I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
^{Verse 28}I am afraid of all my sorrows,
I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.^{Verse 29}If I be wicked,
Why then labour I in vain?
^{Verse 30}If I wash myself with snow water,
And make my hands never so clean;
^{Verse 31}Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,
And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
^{Verse 32}For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
And we should come together in judgment.
^{Verse 33}Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,
That might lay his hand upon us both.
^{Verse 34}Let him take his rod away from me,
And let not his fear terrify me:
^{Verse 35}Then would I speak, and not fear him;
But it is not so with me.