# Job 9 [[Job-08|← Job 08]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-10|Job 10 →]] *** ###### v1 Then Job answered, ###### v2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? ###### v3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand. ###### v4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered? ###### v5 He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger. ###### v6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. ###### v7 He commands the sun and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars. ###### v8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea. ###### v9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south. ###### v10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number. ###### v11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him. ###### v12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?' ###### v13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. ###### v14 How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him? ###### v15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge. ###### v16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice. ###### v17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause. ###### v18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. ###### v19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?' ###### v20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse. ###### v21 I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life. ###### v22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. ###### v23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent. ###### v24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it? ###### v25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good. ###### v26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey. ###### v27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;' ###### v28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. ###### v29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? ###### v30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, ###### v31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me. ###### v32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment. ###### v33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both. ###### v34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid; ###### v35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself. *** [[Job-08|← Job 08]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-10|Job 10 →]]