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

bes@Job:9:2 @ I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

bes@Job:9:3 @ For if he would enter into judgement with him, (note:)Or, he(:note) God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

bes@Job:9:4 @ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

bes@Job:9:5 @ Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger.

bes@Job:9:6 @ Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

bes@Job:9:7 @ Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

bes@Job:9:8 @ Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

bes@Job:9:9 @ Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

bes@Job:9:10 @ Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

bes@Job:9:11 @ If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known it.

bes@Job:9:12 @ If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

bes@Job:9:13 @ For if he has turned away his anger, the (note:)Or, probably any large fish, or marine animals, whether cetaceous or not; See note, Ge strkjv@1:21(:note) whales under heaven have stooped under him.

bes@Job:9:14 @

bes@Job:9:15 @ For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgement.

bes@Job:9:16 @ And if I should call and he should (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. omit «not.’(:note) not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

bes@Job:9:17 @ Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.

bes@Job:9:18 @ For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

bes@Job:9:19 @ For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgement?

bes@Job:9:20 @ For though I should (note:)Gr. be(:note) seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

bes@Job:9:21 @ For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

bes@Job:9:22 @ Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

bes@Job:9:23 @ For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

bes@Job:9:24 @ For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: he covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it be not he, who is it?

bes@Job:9:25 @ But my life is swifter than a post: my days (note:)i. e., insensibly(:note) have fled away, and they knew it not.

bes@Job:9:26 @ Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

bes@Job:9:27 @ And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

bes@Job:9:28 @ I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

bes@Job:9:29 @ But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

bes@Job:9:30 @ For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

bes@Job:9:31 @ thou (note:)Gr. hast(:note) hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

bes@Job:9:32 @ For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgement.

bes@Job:9:33 @ Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.

bes@Job:9:34 @ Let him remove his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

bes@Job:9:35 @ so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

Job 9