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