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