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Then Job answered and said, (9:1) I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? (9:2) If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand (9:3) [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered? (9:4) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger (9:5) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble (9:6) Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars (9:7) Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea (9:8) Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south (9:9) Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number (9:10) Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not (9:11) Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? (9:12) [If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him (9:13) How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out my words [to reason] with him? (9:14) Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge (9:15) If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice (9:16) For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause (9:17) He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness (9:18) If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]? (9:19) If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse (9:20) [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life (9:21) This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (9:22) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent (9:23) The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he? (9:24) Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good (9:25) They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey (9:26) If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: (9:27) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent (9:28) [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (9:29) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; (9:30) Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me (9:31) For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment (9:32) Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both (9:33) Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: (9:34) [Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me
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