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Job 9

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¹Then Job answered and said, ²Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God? ³If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand. ⁴He iswise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?— ⁵Himthat removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger; ⁶That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble; ⁷That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars; ⁸That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea; ⁹That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south; ¹⁰That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number. ¹¹Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not. ¹²Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou? ¹³God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him. ¹⁴How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him? ¹⁵Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge. ¹⁶If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice. ¹⁷For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause. ¹⁸He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness. ¹⁹Ifwe speakof strength, lo, he ismighty! And if of justice, Who, saith he, will summon me? ²⁰Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse. ²¹I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life. ²²It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. ²³If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent. ²⁴The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: Ifit benothe, who then is it? ²⁵Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good. ²⁶They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey. ²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer; ²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. ²⁹I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain? ³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean; ³¹Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me. ³²For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment. ³³There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both. ³⁴Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid: ³⁵Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.