Job:9

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* Then Job answered and said , * I know [it is ] so of a truth , but how shall a man be justified with God ? * If he desires to contend with him , he will not be able to answer him one [thing ] of a thousand . * [He is ] wise in heart and mighty in strength ; who has hardened [himself ] against him and remained in peace ? * Who uproots the mountains in his anger , and they know not who overturned them . * Who removes the earth out of her place and causes her pillars to tremble . * Who commands the sun , and it rises not ; and seals up the stars . * He alone extends the heavens and walks upon the waves of the sea . * He who made Arcturus , Orion , and Pleiades , and the secret places of the south . * He who does great things past finding out , and wonders without number . * Behold , he shall pass before me , and I shall not see him ; and he shall pass on , and I shall not understand him . * Behold , he shall take away , who can cause him to restore ? Who shall say unto him , What doest thou ? * God will not withdraw his anger , and under him those who help , unto pride are bent over . * How much less shall I answer him [and ] choose out my words to [reason ] with him ? * Who even though I am righteous , [yet ] I would not answer , [but ] I would make supplication to my judge . * Who if I were to invoke him , and he answered me ; [yet ] I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice . * For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause . * He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness . * If [we were to speak ] of [his ] strength , he is certainly strong ; and if of [his ] judgment , who shall cause us to meet ? * If I justify myself , my own mouth shall condemn me : [if I say ], I [am ] perfect , he shall prove me perverse . * [If ] I [say I am ] imperfect , I know not my soul ; I would condemn my life . * One thing remains , that I say , He consumes the perfect and the wicked . * If [it is ] the scourge , it slays suddenly , and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent . * The earth is given into the hand of the wicked ; he covers the faces of its judges ; if [it is ] not [he who does this then ], who is it and where [is ] he ? * Now my days are swifter than a post ; they fled away , they never saw good . * They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh as the eagle [that ] throws himself on 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 troubles ; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless . * [If ] I am wicked , why then shall I toil in vain ? * If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean ; * yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit , 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 unto judgment . * Neither is there any arbiter between us , [that ] might lay his hand upon us both . * Let him take his tormentor away from me , and his terror will not perturb me . * [Then ] I would speak and not fear him , because in this state I am not myself .:

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