1 Then Job answered, WEB — Job 9:1
2 “Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God? WEB — Job 9:2
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand. WEB — Job 9:3
4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? WEB — Job 9:4
5 Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger WEB — Job 9:5
6 Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble; WEB — Job 9:6
7 Who commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, And seals up the stars; WEB — Job 9:7
8 Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea; WEB — Job 9:8
9 Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south; WEB — Job 9:9
10 Who does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number. WEB — Job 9:10
11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him. WEB — Job 9:11
12 Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’ WEB — Job 9:12
13 “God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. WEB — Job 9:13
14 How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him? WEB — Job 9:14
15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge. WEB — Job 9:15
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice. WEB — Job 9:16
17 For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause. WEB — Job 9:17
18 He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness. WEB — Job 9:18
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’ WEB — Job 9:19
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. WEB — Job 9:20
21 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life. WEB — Job 9:21
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked. WEB — Job 9:22
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent. WEB — Job 9:23
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it? WEB — Job 9:24
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, WEB — Job 9:25
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey. WEB — Job 9:26
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’ WEB — Job 9:27
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. WEB — Job 9:28
29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain? WEB — Job 9:29
30 If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye, WEB — Job 9:30
31 Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me. WEB — Job 9:31
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment. WEB — Job 9:32
33 There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both. WEB — Job 9:33
34 Let him take his rod away from me, Let his terror not make me afraid: WEB — Job 9:34
35 Then I would speak, and not fear him, For I am not so in myself. WEB — Job 9:35