| 9 | Job | ||
| 1 | Then Job answered: | Job. Jb.9.1-10.22 | |
| 2 | "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God? | ||
| 3 | If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times. | ||
| 4 | He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength - who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? - | ||
| 5 | he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger; | ||
| 6 | who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; | ||
| 7 | who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars; | ||
| 8 | who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea; | ||
| 9 | who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south; | ||
| 10 | who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number. | ||
| 11 | Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him. | ||
| 12 | Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?' | ||
| 13 | "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab. | ||
| 14 | How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him? | ||
| 15 | Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. | ||
| 16 | If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice. | ||
| 17 | For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause; | ||
| 18 | he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness. | ||
| 19 | If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him? | ||
| 20 | Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse. | ||
| 21 | I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life. | ||
| 22 | It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked. | ||
| 23 | When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. | ||
| 24 | The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges - if it is not he, who then is it? | ||
| 25 | "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. | ||
| 26 | They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey. | ||
| 27 | If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,' | ||
| 28 | I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent. | ||
| 29 | I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain? | ||
| 30 | If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, | ||
| 31 | yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me. | ||
| 32 | For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. | ||
| 33 | There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both. | ||
| 34 | Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me. | ||
| 35 | Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself. | ||
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