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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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/job/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Cannot Argue with His Creator</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This was Job’s response:</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Indeed, I’m fully aware that this is so,</p> <p class="poetry2">but how can a person become right with God?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If one were to seek to argue with him,</p> <p class="poetry2">he won’t be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He is wise in heart and strong in will—</p> <p class="poetry2">who can be stubborn against him and succeed?</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“He removes mountains without their knowledge,</p> <p class="poetry2">overthrowing them in his anger.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He shakes the earth from its orbit,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:6 Lit. place">a</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">so that its foundations shudder.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He commands the sun so that it doesn’t shine<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:7 Lit. rise">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and seals up the stars.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He alone spreads out the heavens,</p> <p class="poetry2">he walks on the waves<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:8 Lit. high places">c</a></span> of the sea.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He created Bear, Orion, the Pleiades,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the southern constellations.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He does great things that cannot be explained,</p> <p class="poetry2">and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“If he were to pass near me, I wouldn’t notice;</p> <p class="poetry2">if he moves by, I wouldn’t perceive him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Indeed, if he snatches someone<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:12 The Heb. lacks someone">d</a></span> away,</p> <p class="poetry2">who could restrain him?</p> <p class="poetry2">Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“God doesn’t restrain his anger.</p> <p class="poetry2">Rahab’s assistants are humiliated under him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So how am I to answer him,</p> <p class="poetry2">choosing what I am to say to him?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Even if I’m in the right,</p> <p class="poetry2">I cannot answer him.</p> <p class="poetry2">I can only appeal for mercy.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me,</p> <p class="poetry2">I wouldn’t even believe</p> <p class="poetry2">that he was listening to what I have to say.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:16 Lit. to my voice">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For he crushes me with a storm,</p> <p class="poetry2">and keeps on wounding me for no reason.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He won’t let me catch my breath;</p> <p class="poetry2">instead, he fills me with bitterness.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger!</p> <p class="poetry2">Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Though I’m in the right, my own mouth will condemn me;</p> <p class="poetry2">though I’m blameless, he’ll pronounce me as guilty.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“I’m blameless;</p> <p class="poetry2">I don’t know myself;</p> <p class="poetry2">I despise my life.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I say it’s all the same—</p> <p class="poetry2">he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:22 Or wicked">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If a calamity<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:23 Or scourge">g</a></span> causes sudden death,</p> <p class="poetry2">he’ll mock at the despair of the innocent.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>A land is given into the hands of a wicked person;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:24 Lit. man">h</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">he covers the faces of its judges.</p> <p class="poetry2">If it is not God,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:24 Lit. he">i</a></span> then who is it?”</p> <p class="heading">Job Argues that God Won’t Acquit Him</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“My days pass faster than a runner;</p> <p class="poetry2">but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They pass by like a ship made of reeds,</p> <p class="poetry2">like an eagle swooping down on its prey.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If I were to say, ‘Let me forget my complaint,’</p> <p class="poetry2">change<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:27 Lit. forsake">j</a></span> the expression on<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:27 The Heb. lacks the expression on">k</a></span> my face, and look cheerful,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>then I still dread all of my suffering;</p> <p class="poetry2">I know you still won’t acquit me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I will be condemned,</p> <p class="poetry2">so why should I wear myself out with this futility?</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“If I wash myself with water from snow,</p> <p class="poetry2">and cleanse my hands with lye,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>you’ll still drop me into the Pit,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:31 i.e. the place of punishment in the afterlife">l</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and my own clothes will despise me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He’s not a man like me,</p> <p class="poetry2">so that I can answer him,</p> <p class="poetry2">or that we can enter into litigation<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:32 Lit. controversy">m</a></span> with one another.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>There is not yet a mediator between us,</p> <p class="poetry2">who would set his hand on the two of us,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>removing his rod from me,</p> <p class="poetry2">and not letting terror of him overwhelm me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him,</p> <p class="poetry2">because I’m not like that inside myself.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 9:6 Lit. <i>place</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 9:7 Lit. <i>rise</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 9:8 Lit. <i>high places</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 9:12 The Heb. lacks <i>someone</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 9:16 Lit. <i>to my voice</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 9:22 Or <i>wicked</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 9:23 Or <i>scourge</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 9:24 Lit. <i>man</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 9:24 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 9:27 Lit. <i>forsake</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 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