vw - 9

vw@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

vw@Job:9:2 @ Truly I know it is so; but how can a man be just before the Mighty God?

vw@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

vw@Job:9:4 @ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been at peace?

vw@Job:9:5 @ He removes the mountains, and they do not know when He overturns them in His anger;

vw@Job:9:6 @ He shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

vw@Job:9:7 @ He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals up the stars;

vw@Job:9:8 @ He alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea;

vw@Job:9:9 @ He made the Ursa Major, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

vw@Job:9:10 @ He does great things past finding out, yea, wonders without number.

vw@Job:9:11 @ If He passes by me, I do not see Him; if He moves past, I do not perceive Him.

vw@Job:9:12 @ If He takes away, who can repulse Him? Who can say to Him, What are You doing?

vw@Job:9:13 @ The Mighty God will not withdraw His anger; those who help the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.

vw@Job:9:14 @ How then can I answer Him, and choose my words before Him?

vw@Job:9:15 @ For though I had been righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge.

vw@Job:9:16 @ If I had called and He answered me, I would not believe that He had heard the voice of my prayer.

vw@Job:9:17 @ For He crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

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

vw@Job:9:19 @ If it is a matter of strength, indeed He is strong; and if of justice, who will appoint my meeting?

vw@Job:9:20 @ Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; though I were perfect, it would prove me perverse.

vw@Job:9:21 @ Though I were perfect, yet I do not know my soul; I despise my life.

vw@Job:9:22 @ It is all one; therefore I have said, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

vw@Job:9:23 @ If the scourge slays suddenly, He mocks at the despair of the innocent.

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

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

vw@Job:9:26 @ They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its food.

vw@Job:9:27 @ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,

vw@Job:9:28 @ I am afraid of all my pain; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

vw@Job:9:29 @ If I am guilty, why then do I labor in vain?

vw@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

vw@Job:9:31 @ yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes would abhor me.

vw@Job:9:32 @ For He is not a man, as I am, that I may answer Him, and that we should come together in judgment.

vw@Job:9:33 @ Nor is there any mediator between us, who may lay his hand on us both.

vw@Job:9:34 @ Let Him take His rod away from me, and do not let the dread of Him terrify me.

vw@Job:9:35 @ Then I would speak and not fear Him; but it is not so with me.

Job 9