Job 9 — GNV
9Verse 1Then Iob answered, and sayd,Verse 2I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?Verse 3If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand.Verse 4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered?Verse 5He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.Verse 6Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake.Verse 7He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.Verse 8Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea.Verse 9He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.Verse 10He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.Verse 11Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not.Verse 12Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?Verse 13God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him.Verse 14Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?Verse 15For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.Verse 16If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.Verse 17For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause.Verse 18He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.Verse 19If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?Verse 20If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.Verse 21Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.Verse 22This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.Verse 23If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?Verse 24The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?Verse 25My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.Verse 26They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.Verse 27If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,Verse 28Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.Verse 29If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?Verse 30If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,Verse 31Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.Verse 32For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.Verse 33Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.Verse 34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:Verse 35Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.