dby - Job:9-10

dby@Job:9:1 @ And Job answered and said,

dby@Job:9:2 @ Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with �God?

dby@Job:9:3 @ If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.

dby@Job:9:4 @ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?

dby@Job:9:5 @ Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;

dby@Job:9:6 @ Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;

dby@Job:9:7 @ Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;

dby@Job:9:8 @ Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;

dby@Job:9:9 @ Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

dby@Job:9:10 @ Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number.

dby@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.

dby@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

dby@Job:9:13 @ +God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:

dby@Job:9:14 @ How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?

dby@Job:9:15 @ Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

dby@Job:9:16 @ If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --

dby@Job:9:17 @ He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

dby@Job:9:18 @ He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.

dby@Job:9:19 @ Be it a question of strength, lo, [he is] strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?

dby@Job:9:20 @ If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.

dby@Job:9:21 @ Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

dby@Job:9:22 @ It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

dby@Job:9:23 @ If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.

dby@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked [man]; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?

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

dby@Job:9:26 @ They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

dby@Job:9:27 @ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,

dby@Job:9:28 @ I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

dby@Job:9:29 @ Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

dby@Job:9:30 @ If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,

dby@Job:9:31 @ Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.

dby@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.

dby@Job:9:33 @ There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.

dby@Job:9:34 @ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,

dby@Job:9:35 @ [Then] I will speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

dby@Job:10:1 @ My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

dby@Job:10:2 @ I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.

dby@Job:10:3 @ Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

dby@Job:10:4 @ Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

dby@Job:10:5 @ Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,

dby@Job:10:6 @ That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;

dby@Job:10:7 @ Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?

dby@Job:10:8 @ Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!

dby@Job:10:9 @ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.

dby@Job:10:10 @ Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

dby@Job:10:11 @ Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;

dby@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;

dby@Job:10:13 @ And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.

dby@Job:10:14 @ If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.

dby@Job:10:15 @ If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

dby@Job:10:16 @ And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.

dby@Job:10:17 @ Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.

dby@Job:10:18 @ And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

dby@Job:10:19 @ I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

dby@Job:10:20 @ Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,

dby@Job:10:21 @ Before I go, and never to return, -- to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

dby@Job:10:22 @ A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

dby@Job:11:1 @ And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,