# Job 9 [[Job 8|←]] • [[Job 10|→]] --- ### 1 Then Job answered and said, ### 2 I know so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? ### 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. ### 4 wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened against him, and hath prospered? ### 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. ### 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. ### 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. ### 8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. ### 9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. ### 10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. ### 11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. ### 12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? ### 13 God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. ### 14 How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words with him? ### 15 Whom, though I were righteous, would I not answer, I would make supplication to my judge. ### 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. ### 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. ### 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. ### 19 If of strength, lo, strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time ### 20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: I perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. ### 21 I perfect, would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. ### 22 This one therefore I said He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. ### 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. ### 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, who he? ### 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ### 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle hasteth to the prey. ### 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort ### 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. ### 29 I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? ### 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; ### 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. ### 32 For not a man, as I I should answer him, we should come together in judgment. ### 33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, might lay his hand upon us both. ### 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: ### 35 would I speak, and not fear him; but not so with me.