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