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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Of a truth I know that it is so;</div><div class="po2">And how can man be just with God?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If one should desire to contend with Him,</div><div class="po2">He could not answer Him one of a thousand.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength;</div><div class="po2">Who hath hardened himself against Him, and prospered?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who removeth the mountains, and they know it not,</div><div class="po2">When He overturneth them in His anger.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Who shaketh the earth out of her place,</div><div class="po2">And the pillars thereof tremble.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not;</div><div class="po2">And sealeth up the stars.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who alone stretcheth out the heavens,</div><div class="po2">And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,</div><div class="po2">And the chambers of the south.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who doeth great things past finding out;</div><div class="po2">Yea, marvellous things without number.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Lo, He goeth by me, and I see Him not.</div><div class="po2">He passeth on also, but I perceive Him not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, He snatcheth away, who can hinder Him?</div><div class="po2">Who will say unto Him: ‘What doest Thou?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>God will not withdraw His anger;</div><div class="po2">The helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How much less shall I answer Him,</div><div class="po2">And choose out my arguments with Him?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer;</div><div class="po2">I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I had called, and He had answered me;</div><div class="po2">Yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He that would break me with a tempest,</div><div class="po2">And multiply my wounds without cause;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>That would not suffer me to take my breath,</div><div class="po2">But fill me with bitterness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty!</div><div class="po2">And if of justice, who will appoint me a time?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me;</div><div class="po2">Though I be innocent, He shall prove me perverse.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I am innocent—I regard not myself,</div><div class="po2">I despise my life.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is all one—therefore I say:</div><div class="po2">He destroyeth the innocent and the wicked.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If the scourge slay suddenly,</div><div class="po2">He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;</div><div class="po2">He covereth the faces of the judges thereof;</div><div class="po2">If it be not He, who then is it?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now my days are swifter than a runner;</div><div class="po2">They flee away, they see no good.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They are passed away as the swift ships;</div><div class="po2">As the vulture that swoopeth on the prey.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If I say: ‘I will forget my complaint,</div><div class="po2">I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer’,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I am afraid of all my pains,</div><div class="po2">I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I shall be condemned;</div><div class="po2">Why then do I labour in vain?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I wash myself with snow water,</div><div class="po2">And make my hands never so clean;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch,</div><div class="po2">And mine own clothes shall abhor me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him,</div><div class="po2">That we should come together in judgment.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>There is no arbiter betwixt us,</div><div class="po2">That might lay his hand upon us both.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let Him take His rod away from me,</div><div class="po2">And let not His terror make me afraid;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then would I speak, 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