Job 9 — WEBC
9Verse 1Then Job answered,Verse 2“Truly I know that it is so,but how can man be just with God?Verse 3If he is pleased to contend with him,he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.Verse 4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?Verse 5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,when he overturns them in his anger.Verse 6He shakes the earth out of its place.Its pillars tremble.Verse 7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,and seals up the stars.Verse 8He alone stretches out the heavens,and treads on the waves of the sea.Verse 9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,and the rooms of the south.Verse 10He does great things past finding out;yes, marvelous things without number.Verse 11Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.Verse 12Behold, he snatches away.Who can hinder him?
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’Verse 13“God will not withdraw his anger.The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.Verse 14How much less will I answer him,and choose my words to argue with him?Verse 15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.I would make supplication to my judge.Verse 16If I had called, and he had answered me,yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.Verse 17For he breaks me with a storm,and multiplies my wounds without cause.Verse 18He will not allow me to catch my breath,but fills me with bitterness.Verse 19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’Verse 20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.Verse 21I am blameless.I don’t respect myself.
I despise my life.Verse 22“It is all the same.Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.Verse 23If the scourge kills suddenly,he will mock at the trial of the innocent.Verse 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.He covers the faces of its judges.
If not he, then who is it?Verse 25“Now my days are swifter than a runner.They flee away. They see no good.Verse 26They have passed away as the swift ships,as the eagle that swoops on the prey.Verse 27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’Verse 28I am afraid of all my sorrows.I know that you will not hold me innocent.Verse 29I will be condemned.Why then do I labor in vain?Verse 30If I wash myself with snow,and cleanse my hands with lye,Verse 31yet you will plunge me in the ditch.My own clothes will abhor me.Verse 32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,that we should come together in judgment.Verse 33There is no umpire between us,that might lay his hand on us both.Verse 34Let him take his rod away from me.Let his terror not make me afraid;Verse 35then I would speak, and not fear him,for I am not so in myself.
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’Verse 13“God will not withdraw his anger.The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.Verse 14How much less will I answer him,and choose my words to argue with him?Verse 15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.I would make supplication to my judge.Verse 16If I had called, and he had answered me,yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.Verse 17For he breaks me with a storm,and multiplies my wounds without cause.Verse 18He will not allow me to catch my breath,but fills me with bitterness.Verse 19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’Verse 20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.Verse 21I am blameless.I don’t respect myself.
I despise my life.Verse 22“It is all the same.Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.Verse 23If the scourge kills suddenly,he will mock at the trial of the innocent.Verse 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.He covers the faces of its judges.
If not he, then who is it?Verse 25“Now my days are swifter than a runner.They flee away. They see no good.Verse 26They have passed away as the swift ships,as the eagle that swoops on the prey.Verse 27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’Verse 28I am afraid of all my sorrows.I know that you will not hold me innocent.Verse 29I will be condemned.Why then do I labor in vain?Verse 30If I wash myself with snow,and cleanse my hands with lye,Verse 31yet you will plunge me in the ditch.My own clothes will abhor me.Verse 32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,that we should come together in judgment.Verse 33There is no umpire between us,that might lay his hand on us both.Verse 34Let him take his rod away from me.Let his terror not make me afraid;Verse 35then I would speak, and not fear him,for I am not so in myself.