Job:9-10
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Then Job answered and said ,
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I know it is so truthfully :
but how should man be just with God ?
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If he will contend with him ,
he cannot answer him one of a thousand .
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He is wise in heart ,
and mighty in strength :
who has hardened himself against him ,
and has prospered ?
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Which removes the mountains ,
and they know not :
which overturns them in his anger .
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Which shakes the earth out of her place ,
and the pillars thereof tremble .
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Which commands the sun ,
and it rises not ;
and seals up the stars .
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Which alone spreads out the heavens ,
and treads upon the waves of the sea .
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Which makes Arcturus ,
Orion ,
and Pleiades ,
and the chambers of the south .
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Which does great things past finding out ;
yea ,
and wonders without number .
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Lo ,
he goes by me ,
and I see him not :
he passes on also ,
but I perceive him not .
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Behold ,
he takes away ,
who can hinder him ?
who will say unto him ,
What do you ?
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If God will not withdraw his anger ,
the proud helpers do stoop under him .
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How much less shall I answer him ,
and choose out my words to reason with him ?
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Whom ,
though I were righteous ,
yet would I not answer ,
but I would make supplication to my judge .
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If I had called ,
and he had answered me ;
yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice .
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For he breaks me with a tempest ,
and multiplies my wounds without cause .
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He will not suffer me to take my breath ,
but fills me with bitterness .
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If I speak of strength ,
lo ,
he is strong :
and if of judgment ,
who shall set me a time to plead ?
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If I justify myself ,
mine own mouth shall condemn me :
if I say ,
I am perfect ,
it shall also prove me perverse .
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Though I were perfect ,
yet would I not know my soul :
I would despise my life .
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This is one thing ,
therefore I said it ,
He destroys the perfect and the wicked .
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If the scourge slay suddenly ,
he will laugh at the trial of the innocent .
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked :
he covers the faces of the judges thereof ;
if not ,
where ,
and who is he ?
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Now my days are swifter than a post :
they flee away ,
they see no good .
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They are passed away as the swift ships :
as the eagle that hastes to the prey .
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If I say ,
I will forget my complaint ,
I will leave off my heaviness ,
and comfort myself :
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I am afraid of all my sorrows ,
I know that you will not hold me innocent .
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If I be wicked ,
why then labour I in vain ?
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If I wash myself with snow water ,
and make my hands never so clean ;
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Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch ,
and mine own clothes shall detest me .
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For he is not a man ,
as I am ,
that I should answer him ,
and we should come together in judgment .
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Neither is there any arbitrator between us ,
that might lay his hand upon us both .
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Let him take his rod away from me ,
and let not his fear terrify me :
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Then would I speak ,
and not fear him ;
but it is not so with me .
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My soul is weary of my life ;
I will leave my complaint upon myself ;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul .
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I will say unto God ,
Do not condemn me ;
show me wherefore you contend with me .
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Is it good unto you that you should oppress ,
that you should despise the work of yours hands ,
and shine upon the counsel of the wicked ?
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Have you eyes of flesh ?
or see you as man sees ?
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Are your days as the days of man ?
are your years as man '
s days ,
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That you enquire after mine iniquity ,
and search after my sin ?
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You know that I am not wicked ;
and there is none that can deliver out of yours hand .
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Yours hands have made me and fashioned me together round about ;
yet you do destroy me .
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Remember ,
I plead to you ,
that you have made me as the clay ;
and will you bring me into dust again ?
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Have you not poured me out as milk ,
and curdled me like cheese ?
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You have clothed me with skin and flesh ,
and have fenced me with bones and sinews .
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You have granted me life and favour ,
and your visitation has preserved my spirit .
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And these things have you hid in yours heart :
I know that this is with you .
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If I sin ,
then you mark me ,
and you will not acquit me from mine iniquity .
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If I be wicked ,
woe unto me ;
and if I be righteous ,
yet will I not lift up my head .
I am full of confusion ;
therefore see you mine affliction ;
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For it increases .
You hunt me as a fierce lion :
and again you show yourself marvellous upon me .
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You renew your witnesses against me ,
and increase yours indignation upon me ;
changes and war are against me .
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Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb ?
Oh that I had given up the spirit ,
and no eye had seen me !
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I should have been as though I had not been ;
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave .
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Are not my days few ?
cease then ,
and let me alone ,
that I may take comfort a little ,
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Before I go whence I shall not return ,
even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ;
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A land of darkness ,
as darkness itself ;
and of the shadow of death ,
without any order ,
and where the light is as darkness .
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite ,
and said ,
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