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9:1  Then Job answered:
9:2  ‘Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God?
9:3  If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.
9:4  He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength —who has resisted him, and succeeded?—
9:5  he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger;
9:6  who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
9:7  who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
9:8  who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the Sea;
9:9  who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
9:10  who does great things beyond understanding, and marvellous things without number.
9:11  Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
9:12  He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, “What are you doing?”
9:13  ‘God will not turn back his anger; the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.
9:14  How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
9:15  Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
9:16  If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.
9:17  For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
9:18  he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
9:19  If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
9:20  Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
9:21  I am blameless; I do not know myself; I loathe my life.
9:22  It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
9:23  When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
9:24  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
9:25  ‘My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
9:26  They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
9:27  If I say, “I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer”,
9:28  I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
9:29  I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?
9:30  If I wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,
9:31  yet you will plunge me into filth, and my own clothes will abhor me.
9:32  For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
9:33  There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
9:34  If he would take his rod away from me, and not let dread of him terrify me,
9:35  then I would speak without fear of him, for I know I am not what I am thought to be.