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Job 9
Job 9
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
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Then Job answered and said:
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I know well that it is so; but how can a man be justified before God?
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Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times.
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God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained unscathed?
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He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger.
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He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble.
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He commands the sun, and it rises not; he seals up the stars.
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He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the crests of the sea.
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He made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south;
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He does great things past finding out, marvelous things beyond reckoning.
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Should he come near me, I see him not; should he pass by, I am not aware of him;
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Should he seize me forcibly, who can say him nay? Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
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He is God and he does not relent; the helpers of Rahab bow beneath him.
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How much less shall I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him!
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Even though I were right, I could not answer him, but should rather beg for what was due me.
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If I appealed to him and he answered my call, I could not believe that he would hearken to my words;
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With a tempest he might overwhelm me, and multiply my wounds without cause;
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He need not suffer me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs.
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If it be a question of strength, he is mighty; and if of judgment, who will call him to account?
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Though I were right, my own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, he might put me in the wrong.
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Though I am innocent, I myself cannot know it; I despise my life.
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It is all one! therefore I say: Both the innocent and the wicked he destroys.
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When the scourge slays suddenly, he laughs at the despair of the innocent.
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The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not he, who then is it?
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My days are swifter than a runner, they flee away; they see no happiness;
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They shoot by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping upon its prey.
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If I say: I will forget my complaining, I will lay aside my sadness and be of good cheer,
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Then I am in dread of all my pains; I know that you will not hold me innocent.
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If I must be accounted guilty, why then should I strive in vain?
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If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
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Yet you would plunge me in the ditch, so that my garments would abhor me.
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For he is not a man like myself, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
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Would that there were an arbiter between us, who could lay his hand upon us both
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and withdraw his rod from me. Would that his terrors did not frighten me;
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that I might speak without being afraid of him. Since this is not the case with me,
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