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or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For <i>if</i> he has turned away <i>his</i> anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For even if I have sinned, I know it not <i>in</i> my soul: but my life is taken away.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous <i>man</i>: he covers the faces of the judges <i>of the earth</i>: but if it be not he, who is it?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But my life is swifter than a post: <i>my days</i> have fled away, and they knew it not.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Or again, is there a trace of <i>their</i> path <i>left</i> by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks <i>its</i> prey?<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone <i>as</i> innocent.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Would that <i>he</i> our mediator were <i>present</i>, and a reprover, and one who should hear <i>the cause</i> between both.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let him remove <i>his</i> rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious <i>of guilt</i>.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>