- 1. ¶ THEN Job answered and said,
- 2. Truly, I know that it is so; but how can a man be declared innocent before God?
- 3. If he should contend with him, he cannot answer him one out of a thousand.
- 4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against him, and had peace?
- 5. He who removes mountains and overthrows them with his anger, does he not know?
- 6. He shakes the earth out of its foundations, and its inhabitants tremble.
- 7. He commands the sun, and it does not rise; and seals up the stars.
- 8. He alone stretched out the heavens, and treads upon the mighty waves of the sea.
- 9. He made the Pleiades, Aldebaran, and Orion, and the chambers of the south.
- 10. He has done great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- 11. Lo, if he will pass by me, I will see him not; and if he will circle around me, I will not perceive him.
- 12. Behold, if he will destroy, who can resist him? Who can say to him, What doest thou?
- 13. God will not turn away his anger, the mighty shall be humiliated under him.
- 14. ¶ I will answer him also, and choose out my words in his presence.
- 15. If I am not justified I would not resist, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- 16. If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.
- 17. For he has crushed me with a tempest, and multiplied my wounds without cause.
- 18. He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
- 19. If it is a matter of strength, lo, he is mighty; and if of judgment, who can summon him?
- 20. If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I say I am pure, he shall also prove me perverse.
- 21. Though I am pure, yet I would not know my soul; I would despise my life.
- 22. ¶ It is all the same; therefore I say, He destroys both the righteous and the wicked.
- 23. If his rod slays suddenly, he will laugh at the foolishness of the innocent.
- 24. The earth is handed over to the wicked; and the faces of the judges are covered; if not, who can endure their wrath?
- 25. ¶ Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
- 26. They are passed away like ships of the enemy; like the eagle that swoops on the prey.
- 27. I have forgotten my bitterness; if my mind or my thought would leave me alone, then I would find rest.
- 28. Though I am at rest, I am afraid of every torment, because I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent.
- 29. Behold, if I am declared guilty, why then dost thou consume me in vain?
- 30. If I wash myself with snow why then dost thou consume me in my hands;
- 31. Yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall be abhorrent to me.
- 32. For God is not a man as I am, that I might answer him. and that we should come together for trial.
- 33. O that there were a judge between us, that he might silence us both!
- 34. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me;
- 35. Then I would speak, and I will not be afraid of him, for I have never been against him.
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