Job:9

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* And Job answered and said , * Truly I know [it is so ], but how can man be just with God ? * If he will argue 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 been blessed ; * [He ] who removes the mountains , and they know it not , when He overturns them in His anger ; * [He ] who shakes the earth out of its place , and the pillars of it tremble ; * the one speaking to the sun , and it does not rise ; and seals up the stars ; * who alone stretches out the heavens , and walks on the waves of the sea ; * who made the Bear , Orion , and Pleiades , and the chambers of the south ; * who is doing great things past finding out ; yea , marvelous things without number ? * Behold ! He goes by me , and I do not see [Him ]; He passes on also , but I do not perceive Him . * Behold , He takes away ; who can turn Him back ? Who will say to Him , What are You doing ? * God will not withdraw His anger ; the helpers of pride stoop under Him . * How much less shall I answer Him , [and ] choose my arguments with Him ? * Whom , though I were righteous , [yet ] I would not answer ; I seek mercy for my judgment . * If I had called and He had answered me , yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice ; * [He ] who breaks me with a tempest , and multiplies my wounds without cause ; * [who ] will not allow me to take my breath , but fills me with bitterness . * If [I speak ] of strength , lo , [He is ] mighty ! And if of judgment , who shall set me a time ? * If I justify myself , my own mouth shall condemn me ; [though ] I [am ] perfect , He shall declare me perverse . * [Though ] I [were ] perfect , yet I would not know my soul . I would despise my life . * It [is ] One , therefore I said , He is consuming the perfect and the wicked . * If the whip kills suddenly , He will mock at the calamity 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 ], then who [is ] it ? * Now my days are swifter than a runner ; they flee away , they see no good . * They have passed away like the swift ships ; like the eagle who swoops on the prey . * If I say , I will forget my complaint , I will depart from my heaviness and be of good cheer , * I am afraid of all my sorrows ; I know that You will not hold me innocent . * I have been condemned ; why then should I labor in vain ? * If I wash myself with snow water , and make my hands ever so clean , * yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me . * For [He is ] not a man , as I [am , that ] I should answer Him , [that ] we should come together in judgment ; * there is no mediator between us , [who ] might lay his hand on us both . * Let Him take His rod away from me , and let not His fear make me afraid ; * [then ] would I speak and not fear Him ; for [it is ] not so with me .

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