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Job 8

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 9
#### 1 | Then Job answered and said,
#### 2 | Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
#### 3 | If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
#### 4 | [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?-
#### 5 | [Him] that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;
#### 6 | That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;
#### 7 | That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;
#### 8 | That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;
#### 9 | That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;
#### 10 | That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number.
#### 11 | Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
#### 12 | Behold, he seizeth [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
#### 13 | God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
#### 14 | How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words [to reason] with him?
#### 15 | Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
#### 16 | If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
#### 17 | For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
#### 18 | He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
#### 19 | If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me?
#### 20 | Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
#### 21 | I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
#### 22 | It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
#### 23 | If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
#### 24 | The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If [it be] not [he], who then is it?
#### 25 | Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,
#### 26 | They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
#### 27 | If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;
#### 28 | I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
#### 29 | I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
#### 30 | If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
#### 31 | Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
#### 32 | For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.
#### 33 | There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.
#### 34 | Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid:
#### 35 | Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.

Job 10

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