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Job 9 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:1 - Then Job replied:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:2 - “Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:3 - Though they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:4 - His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:5 - He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:6 - He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:8 - He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:9 - He is the Maker of the Bear[fn] and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:10 - He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:11 - When he passes me, I cannot see him; when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:12 - If he snatches away, who can stop him? Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:13 - God does not restrain his anger; even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:14 - “How then can I dispute with him? How can I find words to argue with him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:15 - Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:16 - Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:17 - He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:18 - He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:19 - If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can challenge him[fn]?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:20 - Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:21 - “Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:22 - It is all the same; that is why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:23 - When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24 - When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:25 - “My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:27 - If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:28 - I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:29 - Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:30 - Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:31 - you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:32 - “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:33 - If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:34 - someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:35 - Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
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Or of Leo
See Septuagint; Hebrew me.
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Job Chapter 9 — Additional Translations:

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