Job Chapter 9 World English Bible

Job 9:1

Then Job answered,

Job 9:2

"Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

Job 9:3

If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.

Job 9:4

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

Job 9:5

Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger

Job 9:6

Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;

Job 9:7

Who commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, And seals up the stars;

Job 9:8

Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea;

Job 9:9

Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

Job 9:10

Who does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number.

Job 9:11

Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

Job 9:12

Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 9:13

"God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

Job 9:14

How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?

Job 9:15

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

Job 9:16

If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice.

Job 9:17

For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.

Job 9:18

He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.

Job 9:19

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

Job 9:20

Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

Job 9:21

I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

Job 9:22

"It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Job 9:23

If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 9:24

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?

Job 9:25

"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

Job 9:26

They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Job 9:27

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

Job 9:28

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Job 9:29

I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 9:31

Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

Job 9:32

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

Job 9:33

There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both.

Job 9:34

Let him take his rod away from me, Let his terror not make me afraid:

Job 9:35

Then I would speak, and not fear him, For I am not so in myself.