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