- 1. And Job answered and said,
- 2. Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with �God?
- 3. If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
- 4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?
- 5. Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;
- 6. Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;
- 7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;
- 8. Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;
- 9. Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
- 10. Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number.
- 11. Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.
- 12. Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
- 13. +God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:
- 14. How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?
- 15. Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
- 16. If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --
- 17. He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- 18. He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
- 19. Be it a question of strength, lo, [he is] strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?
- 20. If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
- 21. Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- 22. It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- 23. If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
- 24. The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked [man]; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?
- 25. And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
- 26. They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.
- 27. If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,
- 28. I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- 29. Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
- 30. If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
- 31. Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
- 32. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.
- 33. There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.
- 34. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,
- 35. [Then] I will speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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