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Job 9 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job 9:1Then Job answered and said,
Job 9:2I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Job 9:3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job 9:5Who removeth the mountains, and they know not: who overturneth them in his anger.
Job 9:6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and its pillars tremble.
Job 9:7Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Job 9:8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Job 9:9Who maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Job 9:10Who doeth great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number.
Job 9:11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
Job 9:12Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What doest thou?
Job 9:13If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Job 9:14How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Job 9:15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9:16If I had called, and he had answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.
Job 9:17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job 9:19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Job 9:20If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also will prove me perverse.
Job 9:21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9:22This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 9:23If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of its judges; if not, where, and who is he?
Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job 9:28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 9:29If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 9:31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:33Neither is there any judge between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34Let him take away his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 9:35Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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