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href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Though they wished to dispute with him,</p><p class="line2">they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>His wisdom is profound, his power is vast.</p><p class="line2">Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He moves mountains without their knowing it</p><p class="line2">and overturns them in his anger.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He shakes the earth from its place</p><p class="line2">and makes its pillars tremble.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;</p><p class="line2">he seals off the light of the stars.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He alone stretches out the heavens</p><p class="line2">and treads on the waves of the sea.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He is the Maker of the Bear <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or of Leo">a</a></sup></span> and Orion,</p><p class="line2">the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</p><p class="line2">miracles that cannot be counted.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When he passes me, I cannot see him;</p><p class="line2">when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If he snatches away, who can stop him?</p><p class="line2">Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>God does not restrain his anger;</p><p class="line2">even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“How then can I dispute with him?</p><p class="line2">How can I find words to argue with him?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;</p><p class="line2">I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Even if I summoned him and he responded,</p><p class="line2">I do not believe he would give me a hearing.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He would crush me with a storm</p><p class="line2">and multiply my wounds for no reason.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He would not let me catch my breath</p><p class="line2">but would overwhelm me with misery.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty!</p><p class="line2">And if it is a matter of justice, who can challenge him <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="See Septuagint; Hebrew me.">b</a></sup></span> ?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;</p><p class="line2">if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Although I am blameless,</p><p class="line2">I have no concern for myself;</p><p class="line2">I despise my own life.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is all the same; that is why I say,</p><p class="line2">‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When a scourge brings sudden death,</p><p class="line2">he mocks the despair of the innocent.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,</p><p class="line2">he blindfolds its judges.</p><p class="line2">If it is not he, then who is it?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“My days are swifter than a runner;</p><p class="line2">they fly away without a glimpse of joy.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They skim past like boats of papyrus,</p><p class="line2">like eagles swooping down on their prey.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,</p><p class="line2">I will change my expression, and smile,’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I still dread all my sufferings,</p><p class="line2">for I know you will not hold me innocent.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Since I am already found guilty,</p><p class="line2">why should I struggle in vain?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Even if I washed myself with soap</p><p class="line2">and my hands with cleansing powder,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>you would plunge me into a slime pit</p><p class="line2">so that even my clothes would detest me.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,</p><p class="line2">that we might confront each other in court.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If only there were someone to mediate between us,</p><p class="line2">someone to bring us together,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>someone to remove God’s rod from me,</p><p class="line2">so that his terror would frighten me no more.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then I would speak up without fear of him,</p><p class="line2">but as it now stands with me, I cannot.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>of Leo</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotebot">See Septuagint; Hebrew <i>me.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a 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