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Job 9

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

9:1

Then Job answered and said,

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9:2

I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

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9:3

For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

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For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

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Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger.

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Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

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Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

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Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

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Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

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Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

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If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].

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9:12

If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

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9:13

For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

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9:14

Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.

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9:15

For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.

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And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

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9:17

Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.

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9:18

For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

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For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

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For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

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For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.

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Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

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9:23

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

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9:24

For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?

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9:25

But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.

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Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?

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And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

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I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone [as] innocent.

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9:29

But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

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9:30

For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

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thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

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9:32

For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

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9:33

Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both.

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9:34

Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

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9:35

so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].

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