Job:9

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* Then Job answered and said , * I know of a truth that it is so : for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord ? * 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 . * For he is wise in mind , and mighty , and great : who has hardened himself against him and endured ? * Who wears out the mountains , and men know it not : who overturns them in anger . * Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations , and its pillars totter . * Who commands the sun , and it rises not ; and he seals up the stars . * Who alone has stretched out the heavens , and walks on the sea as on firm ground . * Who makes Pleias , and Hesperus , and Arcturus , and the chambers of the south . * Who does great and unsearchable things ; glorious also and excellent things , innumerable . * If ever he should go beyond me , I shall not see him : if he should pass by me , neither thus have I known it . * If he would take away , who shall turn him back ? or who shall say to him , What hast thou done ? * 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 . * * For though I be righteous , he will not hearken to me : I will intreat his judgement . * 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 . * Let him not crush me with a dark storm : but he has made by bruises many without cause . * For he suffers me not to take breath , but he has filled me with bitterness . * For indeed he is strong in power : who then shall resist his judgement ? * 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 . * For even if I have sinned , I know it not in my soul : but my life is taken away . * Wherefore I said , Wrath slays the great and mighty man . * For the worthless die , but the righteous are laughed to scorn . * 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 ? * But my life is swifter than a post : my days (note :)i . e ., insensibly (:note ) have fled away , and they knew it not . * 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 ? * And if I should say , I will forget to speak , I will bow down my face and groan ; * I quake in all my limbs , for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent . * But since I am ungodly , why have I not died ? * For if I should wash myself with snow , and purge myself with pure hands , * thou (note :)Gr . hast (:note ) hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth , and my garment had abhorred me . * For thou art not man like me , with whom I could contend , that we might come together to judgement . * Would that he our mediator were present , and a reprover , and one who should hear the cause between both . * Let him remove his rod from me , and let not his fear terrify me : * so shall I not be afraid , but I will speak : for I am not thus conscious of guilt .

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