Job 9 — parallel

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Then Job answered and said:

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9:2

Of a truth I know that it is so; And how can man be just with God?

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9:3

If one should desire to contend with Him, He could not answer Him one of a thousand.

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He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength; Who hath hardened himself against Him, and prospered?

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Who removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When He overturneth them in His anger.

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Who shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.

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9:7

Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; And sealeth up the stars.

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Who alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

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Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south.

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Who doeth great things past finding out; Yea, marvellous things without number.

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9:11

Lo, He goeth by me, and I see Him not. He passeth on also, but I perceive Him not.

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9:12

Behold, He snatcheth away, who can hinder Him? Who will say unto Him: ‘What doest Thou?’

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9:13

God will not withdraw His anger; The helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.

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9:14

How much less shall I answer Him, And choose out my arguments with Him?

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9:15

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me.

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9:16

If I had called, and He had answered me; Yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice—

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9:17

He that would break me with a tempest, And multiply my wounds without cause;

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That would not suffer me to take my breath, But fill me with bitterness.

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9:19

If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! And if of justice, who will appoint me a time? .

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9:20

Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me; Though I be innocent, He shall prove me perverse.

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9:21

I am innocent—I regard not myself, I despise my life.

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It is all one—therefore I say: He destroyeth the innocent and the wicked.

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9:23

If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.

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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?

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9:25

Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.

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9:26

They are passed away as the swift ships; As the vulture that swoopeth 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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I am afraid of all my pains, I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless.

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9:29

I shall be condemned; Why then do I labour in vain?

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9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

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9:31

Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

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9:32

For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, That we should come together in judgment.

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9:33

There is no arbiter betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.

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9:34

Let Him take His rod away from me, And let not His terror make me afraid;

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9:35

Then would I speak, and not fear Him; For I am not so with myself.

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