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Job 9
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
“Truly I know that it is so,
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
If he is pleased to contend with him,
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
He shakes the earth out of its place.
He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.
He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,
He commands the sun not to shine (note: Or rise); He seals off the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens,
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
He does great things past finding out;
He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.
Behold, he snatches away.
If He takes away (note: Or snatches someone in death), who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
“God will not withdraw his anger.
God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.
For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
If I had called, and he had answered me,
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
For he breaks me with a storm,
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
He will not allow me to catch my breath,
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!
If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him (note: See LXX; Hebrew me)?
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty (note: Or He would declare me guilty).
“It is all the same.
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
If the scourge kills suddenly,
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
“Now my days are swifter than a runner.
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
They have passed away as the swift ships,
They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
I am afraid of all my sorrows.
I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
If I wash myself with snow,
If I should wash myself with snow (note: Or soap) and cleanse my hands with lye,
yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
There is no umpire between us,
Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
Let him take his rod away from me.
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
then I would speak, and not fear him,
Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.