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one wished to <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>contend with Him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-3">He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><i>God is</i> wise in heart and mighty in strength.</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-4">Who has hardened <i>himself</i> against Him and prospered?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He removes the mountains, and they do not know</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-5">When He overturns them in His anger;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He shakes the earth out of its place,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-6">And its pillars tremble;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He commands the sun, and it does not rise;</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-7">He seals off the stars;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He alone spreads out the heavens,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-8">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>treads on the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>waves of the sea;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He made <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-9">And the chambers of the south;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He does great things past finding out,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-10">Yes, wonders without number.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If He goes by me, I do not see <i>Him;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-9-11">If He moves past, I do not perceive Him;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If He takes away, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>who can hinder Him?</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-12">Who can say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>God will not withdraw His anger,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-13">The allies of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“How then can I answer Him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-14"><i>And</i> choose my words <i>to reason</i> with Him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him;</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-15">I would beg mercy of my Judge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I called and He answered me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-16">I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For He crushes me with a tempest,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-17">And multiplies my wounds without cause.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He will not allow me to catch my breath,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-18">But fills me with bitterness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If <i>it is a matter</i> of strength, indeed <i>He is</i> strong;</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-19">And if of justice, who will appoint my day <i>in court?</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-20">Though I <i>were</i> blameless, it would prove me perverse.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“I am blameless, yet I do not know myself;</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-21">I despise my life.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It <i>is</i> all one <i>thing;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-9-22">Therefore I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If the scourge slays suddenly,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-23">He laughs at the plight of the innocent.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-24">He covers the faces of its judges.</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-24">If it is not <i>He,</i> who else could it be?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Now my days are swifter than a runner;</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-25">They flee away, they see no good.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They pass by like <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>swift ships,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-26">Like an eagle swooping on its prey.</span><br /> <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,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-27">I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I am afraid of all my sufferings;</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-28">I know that You will not hold me innocent.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><i>If</i> I am condemned,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-29">Why then do I labor in vain?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I wash myself with snow water,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-30">And cleanse my hands with <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>soap,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Yet You will plunge me into the pit,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-31">And my own clothes will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>abhor me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“For <i>He is</i> not a man, as I <i>am,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-9-32"><i>That</i> I may answer Him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-32"><i>And that</i> we should go to court together.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Nor is there any mediator between us,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-33"><i>Who</i> may lay his hand on us both.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let Him take His rod away from me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-34">And do not let dread of Him terrify me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><i>Then</i> I would speak and not fear Him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-9-35">But it is not so with me.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13055a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:3">Job 9:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>argue</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13060b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:8">Job 9:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>walks</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13060c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:8">Job 9:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>heights</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13061d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:9">Job 9:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Ash, Kesil,</i> and <i>Kimah</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13064e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:12">Job 9:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>who can turn Him back?</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13065f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:13">Job 9:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>rahab</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13078g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:26">Job 9:26</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>ships of reeds</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13082h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:30">Job 9:30</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>lye</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13083i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 9:31">Job 9:31</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>loathe</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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