acv - 9

acv@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered and said,

acv@Job:9:2 @ Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

acv@Job:9:3 @ If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

acv@Job:9:4 @ [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

acv@Job:9:5 @ [He] who removes the mountains, and they do not know it when he overturns them in his anger,

acv@Job:9:6 @ who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble,

acv@Job:9:7 @ who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars,

acv@Job:9:8 @ who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,

acv@Job:9:9 @ who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,

acv@Job:9:10 @ who does great things past finding out, yea, marvelous things without number.

acv@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.

acv@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?

acv@Job:9:13 @ God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

acv@Job:9:14 @ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?

acv@Job:9:15 @ Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

acv@Job:9:16 @ If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice.

acv@Job:9:17 @ For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

acv@Job:9:18 @ He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

acv@Job:9:19 @ If of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?

acv@Job:9:20 @ Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

acv@Job:9:21 @ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

acv@Job:9:22 @ It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

acv@Job:9:23 @ If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

acv@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?

acv@Job:9:25 @ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

acv@Job:9:26 @ They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

acv@Job:9:27 @ If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,

acv@Job:9:28 @ I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.

acv@Job:9:29 @ I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

acv@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

acv@Job:9:31 @ yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

acv@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

acv@Job:9:33 @ There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.

acv@Job:9:34 @ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.

acv@Job:9:35 @ Then I would speak, and not be afraid of him, for I am not so in myself.

Job 9