The Book of Job

Chapter-9

Job 9:1 And Job, responding, said:

 

Job 9:2 Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.

 

Job 9:3 If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.

 

Job 9:4 He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?

 

Job 9:5 He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it.

 

Job 9:6 He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.

 

Job 9:7 He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.

 

Job 9:8 He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.

 

Job 9:9 He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.

 

Job 9:10 He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered.

 

Job 9:11 If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand.

 

Job 9:12 If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?”

 

Job 9:13 God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world,

 

Job 9:14 what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?

 

Job 9:15 And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.

 

Job 9:16 And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice.

 

Job 9:17 For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.

 

Job 9:18 He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.

 

Job 9:19 If strength is sought, he is most strong; if equity in judgment, no one would dare to give testimony for me.

 

Job 9:20 If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.

 

Job 9:21 And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.

 

Job 9:22 There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.

 

Job 9:23 If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.

 

Job 9:24 Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?

 

Job 9:25 My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.

 

Job 9:26 They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.

 

Job 9:27 If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.

 

Job 9:28 I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.

 

Job 9:29 Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?

 

Job 9:30 If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,

 

Job 9:31 yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.

 

Job 9:32 For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.

 

Job 9:33 There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.

 

Job 9:34 Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.

 

Job 9:35 I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.