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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 9</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/job/9.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/job/9-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/job/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/">Job</a> > Chapter 9</div><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/job/8.htm" title="Job 8">◄</a> Job 9 <a href="/job/10.htm" title="Job 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div>Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man <a href="/job/9-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">1Then Job answered and said,</a> <a href="/job/9-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?</a> <a href="/job/9-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.</a> <a href="/job/9-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?-</a> <a href="/job/9-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5Him that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;</a> <a href="/job/9-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;</a> <a href="/job/9-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;</a> <a href="/job/9-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;</a> <a href="/job/9-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;</a> <a href="/job/9-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">10That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number.</a> <a href="/job/9-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.</a> <a href="/job/9-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12Behold, he seizeth the prey , who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?</a> <a href="/job/9-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.</a> <a href="/job/9-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?</a> <a href="/job/9-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.</a> <a href="/job/9-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.</a> <a href="/job/9-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.</a> <a href="/job/9-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.</a> <a href="/job/9-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19If we speak of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, Who,'saith he , will summon me?</a> <a href="/job/9-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.</a> <a href="/job/9-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.</a> <a href="/job/9-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">22It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.</a> <a href="/job/9-23.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">23If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.</a> <a href="/job/9-24.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">24The 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?</a> <a href="/job/9-25.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">25Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,</a> <a href="/job/9-26.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">26They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.</a> <a href="/job/9-27.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my'sad countenance, and be of good cheer;</a> <a href="/job/9-28.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.</a> <a href="/job/9-29.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?</a> <a href="/job/9-30.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">30If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;</a> <a href="/job/9-31.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.</a> <a href="/job/9-32.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.</a> <a href="/job/9-33.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">33There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.</a> <a href="/job/9-34.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">34Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid:</a> <a href="/job/9-35.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">35Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/job/9-1.htm">Job acknowledges God's justice</a> 22. <a href="/job/9-22.htm">Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/job/1.htm">Job 1: Job's Character and Wealth</a> <a href="/job/2.htm">Job 2: Job Loses his Health</a> <a href="/job/3.htm">Job 3: Job Laments his Birth </a> <a href="/job/4.htm">Job 4: Eliphaz: the Innocent Prosper </a> <a href="/job/5.htm">Job 5: Eliphaz Continues </a> <a href="/job/6.htm">Job 6: Job Replies: My Complaint is Just </a> <a href="/job/7.htm">Job 7: Job Continues: Life Seems Futile</a> <a href="/job/8.htm">Job 8: Bildad: Job Should Repent </a> <a href="/job/9.htm">Job 9: Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man</a> <a href="/job/10.htm">Job 10: Job's Plea to God </a> <a href="/job/11.htm">Job 11: Zophar Rebukes Job</a> <a href="/job/12.htm">Job 12: Job's Response to Zophar </a> <a href="/job/13.htm">Job 13: Job Reproves his Friends</a> <a href="/job/14.htm">Job 14: Job Acknowledges the Finality of Death</a> <a href="/job/15.htm">Job 15: Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God </a> <a href="/job/16.htm">Job 16: Job: Poor Comforters Are You </a> <a href="/job/17.htm">Job 17: Job Appeals From Men to God</a> <a href="/job/18.htm">Job 18: Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked </a> <a href="/job/19.htm">Job 19: Job: My Redeemer Lives </a> <a href="/job/20.htm">Job 20: Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked is Short</a> <a href="/job/21.htm">Job 21: Job: God Will Deal with the Wicked</a> <a href="/job/22.htm">Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job</a> <a href="/job/23.htm">Job 23: Job Responds: He Longs for God</a> <a href="/job/24.htm">Job 24: Job: Why Are the Wicked Unpunished </a> <a href="/job/25.htm">Job 25: Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous </a> <a href="/job/26.htm">Job 26: Job: who Can Understand God's Majesty</a> <a href="/job/27.htm">Job 27: Job Affirms his Integrity</a> <a href="/job/28.htm">Job 28: The Earth's Treasures</a> <a href="/job/29.htm">Job 29: Job's Former Blessings </a> <a href="/job/30.htm">Job 30: Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt</a> <a href="/job/31.htm">Job 31: Job's Final Appeal </a> <a href="/job/32.htm">Job 32: Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends </a> <a href="/job/33.htm">Job 33: Elihu Rebukes Job </a> <a href="/job/34.htm">Job 34: Elihu Confirms God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/35.htm">Job 35: Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/36.htm">Job 36: Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</a> <a href="/job/37.htm">Job 37: Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty </a> <a href="/job/38.htm">Job 38: God Challenges Job</a> <a href="/job/39.htm">Job 39: God Speaks of His Creation</a> <a href="/job/40.htm">Job 40: Job Humbles Himself Before God</a> <a href="/job/41.htm">Job 41: God's Power Shown in Creatures</a> <a href="/job/42.htm">Job 42: Job Submits Himself to God</a> </div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table><div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible Apps.com</a> <iframe width="100%" height="1200" scrolling="no" src="/botmenutsk.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></body></html>