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valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/job/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Job’s Reply to Bildad</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered:</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Truly, I know that this is so.</p><p class="poetry2">But how can a human be just before God?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If someone wishes to contend with him,</p><p class="poetry2">he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He is wise in heart and mighty in strength –</p><p class="poetry2">who has resisted him and remained safe?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He who removes mountains suddenly,</p><p class="poetry2">who overturns them in his anger;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>he who shakes the earth out of its place</p><p class="poetry2">so that its pillars tremble;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>he who commands the sun and it does not shine</p><p class="poetry2">and seals up the stars;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>he alone spreads out the heavens,</p><p class="poetry2">and treads on the waves of the sea;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,</p><p class="poetry2">and the constellations of the southern sky;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>he does great and unsearchable things,</p><p class="poetry2">and wonderful things without number.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If he passes by me, I cannot see him,</p><p class="poetry2">if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If he snatches away, who can turn him back?</p><p class="poetry2">Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>God does not restrain his anger;</p><p class="poetry2">under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.</p> <p class="title">The Impossibility of Facing God in Court</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“How much less, then, can I answer him</p><p class="poetry2">and choose my words to argue with him!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Although I am innocent,</p><p class="poetry2">I could not answer him;</p><p class="poetry2">I could only plead with my judge for mercy.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I summoned him, and he answered me,</p><p class="poetry2">I would not believe</p><p class="poetry2">that he would be listening to my voice –</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>he who crushes me with a tempest,</p><p class="poetry2">and multiplies my wounds for no reason.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He does not allow me to recover my breath,</p><p class="poetry2">for he fills me with bitterness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If it is a matter of strength,</p><p class="poetry2">most certainly he is the strong one!</p><p class="poetry2">And if it is a matter of justice,</p><p class="poetry2">he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Although I am innocent,</p><p class="poetry2">my mouth would condemn me;</p><p class="poetry2">although I am blameless,</p><p class="poetry2">it would declare me perverse.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I am blameless. I do not know myself.</p><p class="poetry2">I despise my life.</p> <p class="title">Accusation of God’s Justice</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“It is all one! That is why I say,</p><p class="poetry2">‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If a scourge brings sudden death,</p><p class="poetry2">he mocks at the despair of the innocent.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If a land has been given</p><p class="poetry2">into the hand of a wicked man,</p><p class="poetry2">he covers the faces of its judges;</p><p class="poetry2">if it is not he, then who is it?</p> <p class="title">Renewed Complaint</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“My days are swifter than a runner,</p><p class="poetry2">they speed by without seeing happiness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They glide by like reed boats,</p><p class="poetry2">like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,</p><p class="poetry2">I will change my expression and be cheerful,’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I dread all my sufferings,</p><p class="poetry2">for I know that you do not hold me blameless.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If I am guilty,</p><p class="poetry2">why then weary myself in vain?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I wash myself with snow water,</p><p class="poetry2">and make my hands clean with lye,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>then you plunge me into a slimy pit</p><p class="poetry2">and my own clothes abhor me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For he is not a human being like I am,</p><p class="poetry2">that I might answer him,</p><p class="poetry2">that we might come together in judgment.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Nor is there an arbiter between us,</p><p class="poetry2">who might lay his hand on us both,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>who would take his rod away from me</p><p class="poetry2">so that his terror would not make me afraid.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then would I speak and not fear him,</p><p class="poetry2">but it is not so with me.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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