Job 9:1
Then Job answered and said,
Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?
Job 9:5
Which removes the mountains, and they know not: which overturns them in his anger.
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Which shakes the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
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Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
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Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
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Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
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Which does great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number.
Job 9:11
See, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.
Job 9:12
Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What do you?
Job 9:13
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Job 9:14
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Job 9:15
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9:16
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had listened to my voice.
Job 9:17
For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Job 9:19
If I speak of strength, see, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Job 9:20
If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9:22
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Job 9:23
If the whip slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
Job 9:27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
Job 9:29
If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?
Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 9:32
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:33
Neither is there any judge between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 9:35
Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.