Job:9

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* Then Job answered and said , * I know it is so of a truth : but how should man be just with God ? * If he will contend with him , he cannot answer him one of a thousand . * He is wise in heart , and mighty in strength : who has hardened himself against him , and has prospered ? * Which removes the mountains , and they know not : which overturns them in his anger . * Which shakes the earth out of her place , and the pillars thereof tremble . * Which commands the sun , and it rises not ; and seals up the stars . * Which alone spreads out the heavens , and treads on the waves of the sea . * Which makes Arcturus , Orion , and Pleiades , and the chambers of the south . * Which does great things past finding out ; yes , and wonders without number . * See , he goes by me , and I see him not : he passes on also , but I perceive him not . * Behold , he takes away , who can hinder him ? who will say to him , What do you ? * If God will not withdraw his anger , the proud helpers do stoop under him . * How much less shall I answer him , and choose out my words to reason with him ? * Whom , though I were righteous , yet would I not answer , but I would make supplication to my judge . * If I had called , and he had answered me ; yet would I not believe that he had listened to my voice . * For he breaks me with a tempest , and multiplies my wounds without cause . * He will not suffer me to take my breath , but fills me with bitterness . * If I speak of strength , see , he is strong : and if of judgment , who shall set me a time to plead ? * If I justify myself , my own mouth shall condemn me : if I say , I am perfect , it shall also prove me perverse . * Though I were perfect , yet would I not know my soul : I would despise my life . * This is one thing , therefore I said it , He destroys the perfect and the wicked . * If the whip slay suddenly , he will laugh at the trial of the innocent . * The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : he covers the faces of the judges thereof ; if not , where , and who is he ? * Now my days are swifter than a post : they flee away , they see no good . * They are passed away as the swift ships : as the eagle that hastens to the prey . * If I say , I will forget my complaint , I will leave off my heaviness , and comfort myself : * I am afraid of all my sorrows , I know that you will not hold me innocent . * If I be wicked , why then labor I in vain ? * If I wash myself with snow water , and make my hands never so clean ; * Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch , and my own clothes shall abhor me . * For he is not a man , as I am , that I should answer him , and we should come together in judgment . * Neither is there any judge between us , that might lay his hand on us both . * Let him take his rod away from me , and let not his fear terrify me : * Then would I speak , and not fear him ; but it is not so with me .

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