Job Chapter 9

• Job 9:1
  Job.
• Job 9:2
  Then Job answered,
• Job 9:3
  “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
• Job 9:4
  If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
• Job 9:5
  God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
• Job 9:6
  He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
• Job 9:7
  He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
• Job 9:8
  He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
• Job 9:9
  He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
• Job 9:10
  He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
• Job 9:11
  He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
• Job 9:12
  Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
• Job 9:13
  Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
• Job 9:14
  “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
• Job 9:15
  How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
• Job 9:16
  Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
• Job 9:17
  If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
• Job 9:18
  For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
• Job 9:19
  He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
• Job 9:20
  If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
• Job 9:21
  Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
• Job 9:22
  I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
• Job 9:23
  “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
• Job 9:24
  If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
• Job 9:25
  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
• Job 9:26
  “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
• Job 9:27
  They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
• Job 9:28
  If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
• Job 9:29
  I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
• Job 9:30
  I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
• Job 9:31
  If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
• Job 9:32
  yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
• Job 9:33
  For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
• Job 9:34
  There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
• Job 9:35
  Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
• Job 9:36
  then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.