Job 9
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| 1 | Then Iob answered, and said, |
| 2 | I know it is so of a trueth: but howe should man be iust with God. |
| 3 | If he will contend with him, he cannot answere him one of a thousand. |
| 4 | He is wise in heart, and mightie in strength: who hath hardened himselfe against him, and hath prospered? |
| 5 | Which remoueth the mountains, and they know not: which ouerturneth them in his anger: |
| 6 | Which shaketh the earth out of her place, & the pillars thereof tremble: |
| 7 | Which commandeth the Sunne, and it riseth not: and sealeth vp the starres. |
| 8 | Which alone spreadeth out the heauens, and treadeth vpon the waues of the Sea. |
| 9 | Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South. |
| 10 | Which doeth great things past finding out, yea and wonders without number. |
| 11 | Loe, hee goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceiue him not. |
| 12 | Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say vnto him, What doest thou? |
| 13 | If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers doe stoupe vnder him. |
| 14 | How much lesse shall I answere him, and choose out my words to reason with him? |
| 15 | Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge. |
| 16 | If I had called, and had answered me, yet would I not beleeue that he had hearkened vnto my voice: |
| 17 | For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. |
| 18 | Hee will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse. |
| 19 | If I speake of strength, loe, hee is strong: and if of iudgement, who shall set me a time to pleade? |
| 20 | If I iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prooue me peruerse. |
| 21 | Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soule: I would despise my life. |
| 22 | This is one thing, therefore I said it; he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. |
| 23 | If the scourge slay suddenly, hee will laugh at the triall of the innocent. |
| 24 | The earth is giuen into the hand of the wicked: he couereth the faces of the Iudges thereof; if not, where, and who is hee? |
| 25 | Now my dayes are swifter then a Poste: they flee away, they see no good. |
| 26 | They are passed away as the ships: as the Eagle that hasteth to the pray. |
| 27 | If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe. |
| 28 | I am afraid of all my sorrowes, I know that thou wilt not holde me innocent. |
| 29 | If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine? |
| 30 | If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane: |
| 31 | Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall abhorre me. |
| 32 | For he is not a man as I am, that I should answere him, and we should come together in iudgement. |
| 33 | Neither is there any dayes-man betwixt vs, that might lay his hand vpon vs both. |
| 34 | Let him take his rodde away from me, & let not his feare terrifie me: |
| 35 | Then would I speake, and not feare him; but it is not so with me. |