nkjv - Job:9-10

nkjv@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

nkjv@Job:9:2 @ "Truly I know it is so, But how can a man be righteous before God?

nkjv@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with Him, He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

nkjv@Job:9:4 @ God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?

nkjv@Job:9:5 @ He removes the mountains, and they do not know When He overturns them in His anger;

nkjv@Job:9:6 @ He shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble;

nkjv@Job:9:7 @ He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals off the stars;

nkjv@Job:9:8 @ He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea;

nkjv@Job:9:9 @ He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

nkjv@Job:9:10 @ He does great things past finding out, Yes, wonders without number.

nkjv@Job:9:11 @ If He goes by me, I do not see Him; If He moves past, I do not perceive Him;

nkjv@Job:9:12 @ If He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who can say to Him, "What are You doing?'

nkjv@Job:9:13 @ God will not withdraw His anger, The allies of the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.

nkjv@Job:9:14 @ "How then can I answer Him, And choose my words to reason with Him?

nkjv@Job:9:15 @ For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge.

nkjv@Job:9:16 @ If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

nkjv@Job:9:17 @ For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.

nkjv@Job:9:18 @ He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitterness.

nkjv@Job:9:19 @ If it is a matter of strength, indeed He is strong; And if of justice, who will appoint my day in court?

nkjv@Job:9:20 @ Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

nkjv@Job:9:21 @ "I am blameless, yet I do not know myself; I despise my life.

nkjv@Job:9:22 @ It is all one thing; Therefore I say, "He destroys the blameless and the wicked.'

nkjv@Job:9:23 @ If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the plight of the innocent.

nkjv@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, who else could it be?

nkjv@Job:9:25 @ "Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.

nkjv@Job:9:26 @ They pass by like swift ships, Like an eagle swooping on its prey.

nkjv@Job:9:27 @ If I say, "I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,'

nkjv@Job:9:28 @ I am afraid of all my sufferings; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

nkjv@Job:9:29 @ If I am condemned, Why then do I labor in vain?

nkjv@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow water, And cleanse my hands with soap,

nkjv@Job:9:31 @ Yet You will plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes will abhor me.

nkjv@Job:9:32 @ "For He is not a man, as I am, That I may answer Him, And that we should go to court together.

nkjv@Job:9:33 @ Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.

nkjv@Job:9:34 @ Let Him take His rod away from me, And do not let dread of Him terrify me.

nkjv@Job:9:35 @ Then I would speak and not fear Him, But it is not so with me.

nkjv@Job:10:1 @ "My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

nkjv@Job:10:2 @ I will say to God, "Do not condemn me; Show me why You contend with me.

nkjv@Job:10:3 @ Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, That You should despise the work of Your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

nkjv@Job:10:4 @ Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?

nkjv@Job:10:5 @ Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,

nkjv@Job:10:6 @ That You should seek for my iniquity And search out my sin,

nkjv@Job:10:7 @ Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

nkjv@Job:10:8 @ "Your hands have made me and fashioned me, An intricate unity; Yet You would destroy me.

nkjv@Job:10:9 @ Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?

nkjv@Job:10:10 @ Did You not pour me out like milk, And curdle me like cheese,

nkjv@Job:10:11 @ Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

nkjv@Job:10:12 @ You have granted me life and favor, And Your care has preserved my spirit.

nkjv@Job:10:13 @ "And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You:

nkjv@Job:10:14 @ If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.

nkjv@Job:10:15 @ If I am wicked, woe to me; Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; See my misery!

nkjv@Job:10:16 @ If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.

nkjv@Job:10:17 @ You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me.

nkjv@Job:10:18 @ "Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!

nkjv@Job:10:19 @ I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

nkjv@Job:10:20 @ Are not my days few? Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,

nkjv@Job:10:21 @ Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

nkjv@Job:10:22 @ A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness."'

nkjv@Job:11:1 @ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: