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and sealeth up the stars.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Which alone stretcheth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Which maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to mine adversary.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If we speak of the strength of the mighty, lo, he is there! and if of judgment, who will appoint me a time?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if it be not he, who then is it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.</p> <p class="reg"><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, that we should come together in judgment.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>There is no daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then would I speak, and not fear him; for I am not so in myself.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/job/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>