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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"><title>Job 9 King James 2000</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</a> > Job 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><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" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Speaks</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">Then Job answered and said,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">Who removes the mountains, and they know not: who overturns them in his anger.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">Who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">Who alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">Who makes the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">Who does great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What do you?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do bow before him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">For, though I were righteous, yet could I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">He will not permit me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of justice, who shall set me a time to plead?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am blameless, it shall also prove me perverse.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">If the scourge slays suddenly, he will laugh at the plight of the innocent.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of its judges; if not he, who then is it?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="black">They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="black">If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="black">I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="black">If I am wicked, why then labor I in vain?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="black">If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="black">Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="black">For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in trial.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="black">Neither is there any mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="black">Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="black">Then would I speak, and not fear him; 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