18_JOB_09_01 Then Job answered And said,
18_JOB_09_02 I know [ it Is] So of A truth: but how should man be just with God?
18_JOB_09_03 if he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of A thousand.
18_JOB_09_04 [ he Is] wise in heart, And mighty in strength: who hath hardened [ himself] against him, And hath prospered?
18_JOB_09_05 which removeth the mountains, And they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
18_JOB_09_06 which shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.
18_JOB_09_07 which commandeth the sun, And it riseth not; And sealeth up the stars.
18_JOB_09_08 which alone spreadeth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
18_JOB_09_09 which maketh Arcturus, Orion, And Pleiades, And the chambers of the south.
18_JOB_09_10 which doeth great things past finding out; yea, And wonders without number.
18_JOB_09_11 Lo, he goeth by me, And I see [ him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
18_JOB_09_12 behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, what doest thou?
18_JOB_09_13 [ if] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
18_JOB_09_14 how much less shall I answer him, [ And] Choose out my words [ to reason] with him?
18_JOB_09_15 whom, though I were righteous, [ yet] would I not answer, [ but] I would make supplication to my judge.
18_JOB_09_16 if I had called, And he had answered me; [ yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
18_JOB_09_17 for he breaketh me with A tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18_JOB_09_18 he will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
18_JOB_09_19 if [ I speak] of strength, Lo, [ he Is] strong: And if of judgment, who shall set me A time [ to plead]?
18_JOB_09_20 if I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [ if I say], I [ am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
18_JOB_09_21 [ though] I [ were] perfect, [ yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
18_JOB_09_22 this [ Is] one [ thing], therefore I said [ it], he destroyeth the perfect And the wicked.
18_JOB_09_23 if the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
18_JOB_09_24 the earth Is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [ And] who [ Is] he?
18_JOB_09_25 now my days are swifter than A post: they flee away, they see no good.
18_JOB_09_26 they are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [ that] hasteth to the prey.
18_JOB_09_27 if I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, And comfort [ myself]:
18_JOB_09_28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou Wilt not hold me innocent.
18_JOB_09_29 [ if] I be wicked, why Then labour I in vain?
18_JOB_09_30 if I Wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never So clean;
18_JOB_09_31 yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
18_JOB_09_32 for [ he Is] not A man, as I [ am, that] I should answer him, [ And] we should come together in judgment.
18_JOB_09_33 neither Is there any daysman betwixt us, [ that] might lay his hand upon us Both.
18_JOB_09_34 let him take his rod away from me, And let not his Fear terrify me:
18_JOB_09_35 [ Then] would I speak, And not Fear him; but [ it Is] not So with me.