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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 Lamsa Bible</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="../">Lamsa</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">Lamsa Bible</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"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>THEN Job answered and said,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Truly, I know that it is so; but how can a man be declared innocent before God?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>If he should contend with him, he cannot answer him one out of a thousand.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against him, and had peace?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>He who removes mountains and overthrows them with his anger, does he not know?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>He shakes the earth out of its foundations, and its inhabitants tremble.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>He commands the sun, and it does not rise; and seals up the stars.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>He alone stretched out the heavens, and treads upon the mighty waves of the sea.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>He made the Pleiades, Aldebaran, and Orion, and the chambers of the south.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>He has done great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Lo, if he will pass by me, I will see him not; and if he will circle around me, I will not perceive him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, if he will destroy, who can resist him? Who can say to him, What doest thou?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>God will not turn away his anger, the mighty shall be humiliated under him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>I will answer him also, and choose out my words in his presence.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>If I am not justified I would not resist, but I would make supplication to my judge.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>For he has crushed me with a tempest, and multiplied my wounds without cause.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>If it is a matter of strength, lo, he is mighty; and if of judgment, who can summon him?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I say I am pure, he shall also prove me perverse.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>Though I am pure, yet I would not know my soul; I would despise my life.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>It is all the same; therefore I say, He destroys both the righteous and the wicked.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>If his rod slays suddenly, he will laugh at the foolishness of the innocent.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>The earth is handed over to the wicked; and the faces of the judges are covered; if not, who can endure their wrath?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>They are passed away like ships of the enemy; like the eagle that swoops on the prey.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>I have forgotten my bitterness; if my mind or my thought would leave me alone, then I would find rest.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>Though I am at rest, I am afraid of every torment, because I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>Behold, if I am declared guilty, why then dost thou consume me in vain?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>If I wash myself with snow why then dost thou consume me in my hands;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>Yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall be abhorrent to me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>For God is not a man as I am, that I might answer him. and that we should come together for trial.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>O that there were a judge between us, that he might silence us both!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/9-35.htm#aramaic"><b>35</b></a></span>Then I would speak, and I will not be afraid of him, for I have never been against him.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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