Job 9

1. (Job 9:1) Then Job answered and said,
2. (Job 9:2) I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3. (Job 9:3) If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
4. (Job 9:4) He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
5. (Job 9:5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
6. (Job 9:6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7. (Job 9:7) Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
8. (Job 9:8) Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
9. (Job 9:9) Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
10. (Job 9:10) Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
11. (Job 9:11) Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
12. (Job 9:12) Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
13. (Job 9:13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
14. (Job 9:14) How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
15. (Job 9:15) Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
16. (Job 9:16) If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17. (Job 9:17) For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18. (Job 9:18) He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19. (Job 9:19) If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
20. (Job 9:20) If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
21. (Job 9:21) Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22. (Job 9:22) This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23. (Job 9:23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24. (Job 9:24) The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
25. (Job 9:25) Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
26. (Job 9:26) They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
27. (Job 9:27) If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
28. (Job 9:28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29. (Job 9:29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30. (Job 9:30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31. (Job 9:31) Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
32. (Job 9:32) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
33. (Job 9:33) Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
34. (Job 9:34) Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
35. (Job 9:35) Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.