Job 9 — GNB

9Verse 1Then Job answered and said:^{Verse 2}Of a truth, I know that it is so: For how can man be just before God?^{Verse 3}If he choose to contend with him, He cannot answer him to one charge of a thousand.^{Verse 4}He is excellent in wisdom, mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?^{Verse 5}He removeth the mountains, and they know it not; He overturneth them in his anger.^{Verse 6}He shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.^{Verse 7}He commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And he sealeth up the stars.^{Verse 8}He alone spreadeth out the heavens, And walketh upon the high waves of the sea.^{Verse 9}He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the secret chambers of the South.^{Verse 10}He doeth great things past finding out, Yea, wonderful things without number.^{Verse 11}Lo! he goeth by me, but I see him not; He passeth along, but I do not perceive him.^{Verse 12}Lo! he seizeth, and who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What doest thou?^{Verse 13}God will not turn away his anger; The proud helpers are brought low before him.^{Verse 14}How much less shall I answer him, And choose out words to contend with him?^{Verse 15}Though I were innocent, I would not answer him; I would cast myself on the mercy of my judge.^{Verse 16}Should I call, and he make answer to me, I could not believe that he listened to my voice,—^{Verse 17}He who falleth upon me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause!^{Verse 18}Who will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness!^{Verse 19}If I look to strength, “Lo! here am I!” [[saith he,]] If to justice, “Who shall summon me to trial?”^{Verse 20}Though I were upright, yet must my own mouth condemn me; Though I were innocent, He would prove me perverse.^{Verse 21}Though I were innocent, I would not care for myself; I would despise my life.^{Verse 22}It is all one; therefore I will affirm, He destroyeth the righteous and the wicked alike.^{Verse 23}When the scourge bringeth sudden destruction, He laugheth at the sufferings of the innocent.^{Verse 24}The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covereth the face of the judges thereof; If it be not He, who is it?^{Verse 25}My days have been swifter than a courier; They have fled away; they have seen no good.^{Verse 26}They have gone by like the reed-skiffs; Like the eagle, darting upon his prey.^{Verse 27}If I say, I will forget my lamentation, I will change my countenance, and take courage,^{Verse 28}Still am I in dread of the multitude of my sorrows; For I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.^{Verse 29}I shall be found guilty; Why then should I labor in vain?^{Verse 30}If I wash myself in snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,^{Verse 31}Still wilt thou plunge me into the pit, So that my own clothes will abhor me.^{Verse 32}For He is not a man, as I am, that I may contend with him, And that we may go together into judgment;^{Verse 33}There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.^{Verse 34}Let him take from me his rod, And not dismay me with his terrors,^{Verse 35}Then I will speak, and not be afraid of him: For I am not so at heart.