Editing Job 9

* [[Job 9:1|1]] Then Job answered and said,

* [[Job 9:2|2]] I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

* [[Job 9:3|3]] If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

* [[Job 9:4|4]] He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

* [[Job 9:5|5]] Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

* [[Job 9:6|6]] Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

* [[Job 9:7|7]] Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

* [[Job 9:8|8]] Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

* [[Job 9:9|9]] Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

* [[Job 9:10|10]] Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

* [[Job 9:11|11]] Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

* [[Job 9:12|12]] Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

* [[Job 9:13|13]] If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

* [[Job 9:14|14]] How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

* [[Job 9:15|15]] Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

* [[Job 9:16|16]] If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

* [[Job 9:17|17]] For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

* [[Job 9:18|18]] He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

* [[Job 9:19|19]] If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

* [[Job 9:20|20]] If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

* [[Job 9:21|21]] Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

* [[Job 9:22|22]] This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

* [[Job 9:23|23]] If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

* [[Job 9:24|24]] 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?

* [[Job 9:25|25]] Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

* [[Job 9:26|26]] They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

* [[Job 9:27|27]] If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

* [[Job 9:28|28]] I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

* [[Job 9:29|29]] If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

* [[Job 9:30|30]] If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

* [[Job 9:31|31]] Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

* [[Job 9:32|32]] For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

* [[Job 9:33|33]] Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

* [[Job 9:34|34]] Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

* [[Job 9:35|35]] Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

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