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Job 9 📜 📕 ↷
Job: How Can I Contend with God?
1 AND Job answering, said:📜💬📚
2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man is not justified compared with God.📜💬📚
3 If he will content with him, he can not answer him one for a thousand.📜💬📚
4 He is wise of heart, and strong of force: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?📜💬📚
5 He that transported mountains, and they whom he subverted in his fury, knew not.📜💬📚
6 He that removeth the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof are shaken.📜💬📚
7 He that commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:📜💬📚
8 He that alone spreadeth the heaven, & goeth upon the waves of the sea.📜💬📚
9 He that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.📜💬📚
10 He that doth great things and incomprehensible, and marvelous, of the which there is no number.📜💬📚
11 If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not understand.📜💬📚
12 If suddenly he ask, who shall answer him? Or who can say: Why doest thou so?📜💬📚
13 God whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that carry the world.📜💬📚
14 How great am I then, that I may answer him, and speak in my words with him?📜💬📚
15 Who although I have any just thing, will not answer, but will beseech my judge.📜💬📚
16 And when he shall hear me invocating, I do not believe that he hath heard my voice.📜💬📚
17 For in a hurlwind shall he break me, and shall multiply my wounds yea without cause.📜💬📚
18 He granteth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.📜💬📚
19 If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare give testimony for me.📜💬📚
20 If I will justify my self, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I will shew my self innocent, he shall prove me wicked.📜💬📚
21 Although I shall be simple, the self-same shall my soul be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life,📜💬📚
22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the impious he consumeth.📜💬📚
23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of innocents.📜💬📚
24 The earth is given into the hands of the impious, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it them?📜💬📚
25 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled and have not seen good.📜💬📚
26 They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to meat.📜💬📚
27 When I shall say: I will not speak so, I change my face, & am tormented with sorrow.📜💬📚
28 I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.📜💬📚
29 But if so also I am impious, why have I laboured in vain?📜💬📚
30 If I be washed as it were with snow-waters, & my hands shall shine as most clean:📜💬📚
31 Yet shall thou dip me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.📜💬📚
32 For neither I will answer a man that is like my self: nor that may be heard with me equally in judgment.📜💬📚
33 There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.📜💬📚
34 Let him take his rod from me, and let not his dread terrify me.📜💬📚
35 I will speak, and will not fear him: for I can not answer fearing.📜💬📚
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