📖 Job 9
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Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:
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“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
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If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
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He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?
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He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;
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he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;
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he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;
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he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
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he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;
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he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.
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If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
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If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’
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God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.
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The Impossibility of Facing God in Court“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
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Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
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If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice–
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he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
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He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
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If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say,‘Who will summon me?’
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Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
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I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
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Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
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If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
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If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?
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Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
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They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
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If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’
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I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
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If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
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If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
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then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
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For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
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Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,
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who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.
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Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.