lesserot

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

lesserot@Job:9:2 @ Truly I know that it is so: and how could a mortal be righteous before God?

lesserot@Job:9:3 @ If he were desirous to enter into a contest with him, he could not give him one answer out of a thousand.

lesserot@Job:9:4 @ He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and escaped unscathed?

lesserot@Job:9:5 @ who removeth mountains, and they know it not, yea, when he overturneth them in his anger;

lesserot@Job:9:6 @ Who shaketh the earth loose out of her place, that her pillars tremble;

lesserot@Job:9:7 @ Who speaketh to the sun, and he shineth not, and around the stars he placeth a seal;

lesserot@Job:9:8 @ Who spread out the heavens by himself alone, and treadeth upon the hillocks of the sea;

lesserot@Job:9:9 @ Who made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers the south;

lesserot@Job:9:10 @ Who doth great things which are quite unsearchable, and wonders which are quite without number.

lesserot@Job:9:11 @ Lo, were he to go past by me, I should not see him; and were he to pass along, I should not perceive him.

lesserot@Job:9:12 @ Behold, were he to snatch aught away, who could hold him back? who would say unto him, What dost thou?

lesserot@Job:9:13 @ God will not withdraw his anger: beneath him sink down the helpers of the proud.

lesserot@Job:9:14 @ How much less then could I answer him, and select my words with him?

lesserot@Job:9:15 @ Whom, were I even righteous, I could not answer? to him that condemneth me I could make supplication.

lesserot@Job:9:16 @ Or were I to call, and he would answer me, I could yet not believe that he would give ear unto my voice

lesserot@Job:9:17 @ He that bruiseth me with tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without a cause.

lesserot@Job:9:18 @ He suffereth me not to recover my breath; but feedeth me overmuch with bitter things.

lesserot@Job:9:19 @ If it regard strength, lo, he is the powerful; and if justice, who will cite him for me to appear?

lesserot@Job:9:20 @ If I were righteous even, my own mouth would condemn me: were I innocent, it would still prove me perverse.

lesserot@Job:9:21 @ I am innocent; I will not have regard for myself: I will despise my life.

lesserot@Job:9:22 @ One thing is, therefore have I said it, The innocent and the wicked he bringeth to their end.

lesserot@Job:9:23 @ If a scourge should slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the guiltless.

lesserot@Job:9:24 @ Is a land given up into the hand of the wicked? he covereth the faces of its judges: if this be not the truth, who is it then?

lesserot@Job:9:25 @ And my days pass swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no happiness,

lesserot@Job:9:26 @ They hasten along like pirate ships: like the eagle that stoopeth down upon his food.

lesserot@Job:9:27 @ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sorrowful countenance, and recover my cheerfulness:

lesserot@Job:9:28 @ O then would I be in dread of all my pains; I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent.

lesserot@Job:9:29 @ I must ever be guilty: why then should I fatigue myself for nought?

lesserot@Job:9:30 @ If I were to wash myself in snowwater, to cleanse myself in the purity of my hands:

lesserot@Job:9:31 @ Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.

lesserot@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest.

lesserot@Job:9:33 @ There is no one who can decide between us, who could lay his hand upon us both.

lesserot@Job:9:34 @ Let him but remove from me his rod, and let not his dread terrify me:

lesserot@Job:9:35 @ Then would I speak, and not fear him; for the like I feel not within me.

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