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9:1  Then Job answered and said,
9:2  Of a truth I know that it is so: but how can man be just with God?
9:3  If he be pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
9:4  He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?
9:5  Which removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger.
9:6  Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
9:7  Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
9:8  Which alone stretcheth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
9:9  Which maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
9:10  Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things 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 seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
9:13  God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab 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; I would make supplication to mine adversary.
9:16  If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he 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 we speak of the strength of the mighty, lo, he is there! and if of judgment, who will appoint me a time?
9:20  Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
9:21  I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
9:22  It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
9:23  If the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock 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 it be not he, who then is it?
9:25  Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
9:26  They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
9:27  If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer:
9:28  I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt 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 water, and make my hands never so clean;
9:31  Yet wilt 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, that we should come together in judgment.
9:33  There is no daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
9:34  Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid:
9:35  Then would I speak, and not fear him; for I am not so in myself.