Job - Chapter 9 - King James 2000
- Then Job answered and said,
- I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?
- If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?
- Who removes the mountains, and they know not: who overturns them in his anger.
- Who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
- Who alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea.
- Who makes the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
- Who does great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.
- Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What do you?
- If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do bow before him.
- How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
- For, though I were righteous, yet could I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
- For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- He will not permit me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
- If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of justice, who shall set me a time to plead?
- If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am blameless, it shall also prove me perverse.
- Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
- If the scourge slays suddenly, he will laugh at the plight of the innocent.
- The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of its judges; if not he, who then is it?
- Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
- They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
- If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
- If I am wicked, why then labor I in vain?
- If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean;
- Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
- For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in trial.
- Neither is there any mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
- Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
- Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.