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9:1  Then Job answered and said,
9:2  I know it is so of a truth, but how shall a man be justified with God?
9:3  If he desires to contend with him, he will not be able to answer him one thing of a thousand.
9:4  He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against him and remained in peace?
9:5  Who uproots the mountains in his anger, and they know not who overturned them.
9:6  Who removes the earth out of her place and causes her pillars to tremble.
9:7  Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
9:8  He alone extends the heavens and walks upon the waves of the sea.
9:9  He who made Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the secret places of the south.
9:10  He who does great things past finding out, and wonders without number.
9:11  Behold, he shall pass before me, and I shall not see him; and he shall pass on, and I shall not understand him.
9:12  Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?
9:13  God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.
9:14  How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to reason with him?
9:15  Who even though I am righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
9:16  Who if I were to invoke him, and he answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
9:17  For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.
9:18  He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness.
9:19  If we were to speak of his strength, he is certainly strong; and if of his judgment, who shall cause us to meet?
9:20  If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.
9:21  If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.
9:22  One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.
9:23  If it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.
9:24  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he who does this then, who is it and where is he?
9:25  Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.
9:26  They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh {Heb. reed} as the eagle that throws himself on the prey.
9:27  If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself;
9:28  I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless.
9:29  If I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain?
9:30  If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean;
9:31  yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
9:32  For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together unto judgment.
9:33  Neither is there any arbiter between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
9:34  Let him take his tormentor away from me, and his terror will not perturb me.
9:35  Then I would speak and not fear him, because in this state I am not myself.