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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/9-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Job: How Can I Contend with God?<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Job, responding, said:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?”<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If strength is sought, he is most strong; if equity in judgment, no one would dare to give testimony for me.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<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>