rsv Job:9-12
rsv@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:9:2 @ "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
rsv@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
rsv@Job:9:4 @ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--
rsv@Job:9:5 @ he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
rsv@Job:9:6 @ who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
rsv@Job:9:7 @ who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
rsv@Job:9:8 @ who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
rsv@Job:9:9 @ who made the Bear and Orion, the Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;
rsv@Job:9:10 @ who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
rsv@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
rsv@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? who will say to him, `u'?
rsv@Job:9:13 @ "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
rsv@Job:9:14 @ How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
rsv@Job:9:15 @ Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
rsv@Job:9:16 @ If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
rsv@Job:9:17 @ For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
rsv@Job:9:18 @ he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
rsv@Job:9:19 @ If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
rsv@Job:9:20 @ Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
rsv@Job:9:21 @ I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
rsv@Job:9:22 @ It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
rsv@Job:9:23 @ When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
rsv@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 then is it?
rsv@Job:9:25 @ "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
rsv@Job:9:26 @ They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
rsv@Job:9:27 @ If I say, ` I say, "I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,'
rsv@Job:9:28 @ I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
rsv@Job:9:29 @ I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
rsv@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
rsv@Job:9:31 @ yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
rsv@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
rsv@Job:9:33 @ There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
rsv@Job:9:34 @ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
rsv@Job:9:35 @ Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
rsv@Job:10:1 @ "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
rsv@Job:10:2 @ I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.
rsv@Job:10:3 @ Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
rsv@Job:10:4 @ Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
rsv@Job:10:5 @ Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
rsv@Job:10:6 @ that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
rsv@Job:10:7 @ although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
rsv@Job:10:8 @ Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
rsv@Job:10:9 @ Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
rsv@Job:10:10 @ Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
rsv@Job:10:11 @ Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
rsv@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.
rsv@Job:10:13 @ Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.
rsv@Job:10:14 @ If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
rsv@Job:10:15 @ If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
rsv@Job:10:16 @ And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;
rsv@Job:10:17 @ thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.
rsv@Job:10:18 @ "Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
rsv@Job:10:19 @ and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
rsv@Job:10:20 @ Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
rsv@Job:10:21 @ before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
rsv@Job:10:22 @ the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness."
rsv@Job:11:1 @ Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:
rsv@Job:11:2 @ "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be vindicated?
rsv@Job:11:3 @ Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
rsv@Job:11:4 @ For you say, `r you say, "My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
rsv@Job:11:5 @ But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
rsv@Job:11:6 @ and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
rsv@Job:11:7 @ "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
rsv@Job:11:8 @ It is higher than heaven --what can you do? Deeper than Sheol--what can you know?
rsv@Job:11:9 @ Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
rsv@Job:11:10 @ If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?
rsv@Job:11:11 @ For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
rsv@Job:11:12 @ But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.
rsv@Job:11:13 @ "If you set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
rsv@Job:11:14 @ If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.
rsv@Job:11:15 @ Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure, and will not fear.
rsv@Job:11:16 @ You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
rsv@Job:11:17 @ And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
rsv@Job:11:18 @ And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.
rsv@Job:11:19 @ You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.
rsv@Job:11:20 @ But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."
rsv@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:12:2 @ "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
rsv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
rsv@Job:12:4 @ I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
rsv@Job:12:5 @ In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
rsv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
rsv@Job:12:7 @ "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
rsv@Job:12:8 @ or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
rsv@Job:12:9 @ Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
rsv@Job:12:10 @ In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
rsv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
rsv@Job:12:12 @ Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
rsv@Job:12:13 @ "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
rsv@Job:12:14 @ If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
rsv@Job:12:15 @ If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
rsv@Job:12:16 @ With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
rsv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
rsv@Job:12:18 @ He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
rsv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
rsv@Job:12:20 @ He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
rsv@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
rsv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
rsv@Job:12:23 @ He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
rsv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
rsv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
rsv@Job:13:1 @ "Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
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