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Its pillars tremble.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>"It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. 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