Job:9-10
noyes@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered and said:
noyes@Job:9:2 @ Of a truth, I know that it is so: For how can man be just before God?
noyes@Job:9:3 @ If he choose to contend with him, He cannot answer him to one charge of a thousand.
noyes@Job:9:4 @ He is excellent in wisdom, mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?
noyes@Job:9:5 @ He removeth the mountains, and they know it not; He overturneth them in his anger.
noyes@Job:9:6 @ He shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.
noyes@Job:9:7 @ He commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And he sealeth up the stars.
noyes@Job:9:8 @ He alone spreadeth out the heavens, And walketh upon the high waves of the sea.
noyes@Job:9:9 @ He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the secret chambers of the South.
noyes@Job:9:10 @ He doeth great things past finding out, Yea, wonderful things without number.
noyes@Job:9:11 @ Lo! he goeth by me, but I see him not; He passeth along, but I do not perceive him.
noyes@Job:9:12 @ Lo! he seizeth, and who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What doest thou?
noyes@Job:9:13 @ God will not turn away his anger; The proud helpers are brought low before him.
noyes@Job:9:14 @ How much less shall I answer him, And choose out words to contend with him?
noyes@Job:9:15 @ Though I were innocent, I would not answer him; I would cast myself on the mercy of my judge.
noyes@Job:9:16 @ Should I call, and he make answer to me, I could not believe that he listened to my voice,
noyes@Job:9:17 @ He who falleth upon me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause!
noyes@Job:9:18 @ Who will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness!
noyes@Job:9:19 @ If I look to strength, "Lo! here am I!" If to justice, "Who shall summon me to trial?"
noyes@Job:9:20 @ Though I were upright, yet must my own mouth condemn me; Though I were innocent, He would prove me perverse.
noyes@Job:9:21 @ Though I were innocent, I would not care for myself; I would despise my life.
noyes@Job:9:22 @ It is all one; therefore I will affirm, He destroyeth the righteous and the wicked alike.
noyes@Job:9:23 @ When the scourge bringeth sudden destruction, He laugheth at the sufferings of the innocent.
noyes@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covereth the face of the judges thereof; If it be not He, who is it?
noyes@Job:9:25 @ My days have been swifter than a courier; They have fled away; they have seen no good.
noyes@Job:9:26 @ They have gone by like the reedskiffs; Like the eagle, darting upon his prey.
noyes@Job:9:27 @ If I say, I will forget my lamentation, I will change my countenance, and take courage,
noyes@Job:9:28 @ Still am I in dread of the multitude of my sorrows; For I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
noyes@Job:9:29 @ I shall be found guilty; Why then should I labor in vain?
noyes@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself in snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,
noyes@Job:9:31 @ Still wilt thou plunge me into the pit, So that my own clothes will abhor me.
noyes@Job:9:32 @ For He is not a man, as I am, that I may contend with him, And that we may go together into judgment;
noyes@Job:9:33 @ There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.
noyes@Job:9:34 @ Let him take from me his rod, And not dismay me with his terrors,
noyes@Job:9:35 @ Then I will speak, and not be afraid of him: For I am not so at heart.
noyes@Job:10:1 @ I am weary of my life; I will let loose within me my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
noyes@Job:10:2 @ I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with me!
noyes@Job:10:3 @ Is it a pleasure to thee to oppress, And to despise the work of thy hands, And to shine upon the plans of the wicked?
noyes@Job:10:4 @ Hast thou eyes of flesh, Or seest thou as man seeth?
noyes@Job:10:5 @ Are thy days as the days of a man, Are thy years as the days of a mortal,
noyes@Job:10:6 @ That thou seekest after my iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
noyes@Job:10:7 @ Though thou knowest that I am not guilty, And that none can deliver from thy hand?
noyes@Job:10:8 @ Have thy hands completely fashioned and made me In every part, that thou mightst destroy me?
noyes@Job:10:9 @ O remember that thou hast moulded me as clay! And wilt thou bring me again to dust?
noyes@Job:10:10 @ Thou didst pour me out as milk, And curdle me as cheese;
noyes@Job:10:11 @ With skin and flesh didst thou clothe me, And strengthen me with bones and sinews;
noyes@Job:10:12 @ Thou didst grant me life and favor, And thy protection preserved my breath:
noyes@Job:10:13 @ Yet these things thou didst lay up in thy heart! I know that this was in thy mind.
noyes@Job:10:14 @ If I sin, then thou markest me, And wilt not acquit me of mine iniquity.
noyes@Job:10:15 @ If I am wicked,then woe unto me! Yet if righteous, I dare not lift up my head; I am full of confusion, beholding my affliction.
noyes@Job:10:16 @ If I lift it up, like a lion thou huntest me, And again showest thyself terrible unto me.
noyes@Job:10:17 @ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine anger toward me; New hosts continually rise up against me.
noyes@Job:10:18 @ Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? I should have perished, and no eye had seen me;
noyes@Job:10:19 @ I should be as though I had not been; I should have been borne from the womb to the grave.
noyes@Job:10:20 @ Are not my days few? O spare then, And let me alone, that I may be at ease a little while,
noyes@Job:10:21 @ Before I go whence I shall not returnTo the land of darkness and deathshade,
noyes@Job:10:22 @ The land of darkness like the blackness of deathshade, Where is no order, and where the light is as darkness.
noyes@Job:11:1 @ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
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