Job Job, chapter Book of Job, chapter 9
Then Job answered and said: Of a truth I know that it is so; and how can man be just with God? Job 4:17If one should desire to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength; who hath hardened himself against Him, and prospered? Job 37:23Who removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturneth them in His anger. Jer 51:25Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. Jos 10:13; 2Ki 20:11Who alone stretcheth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Jer 51:15Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. Who doeth great things past finding out; yea, marvellous things without number. Job 5:9Lo, He goeth by me, and I see Him not. He passeth on also, but I perceive Him not. Behold, He snatcheth away, who can hinder Him? Who will say unto Him: 'What doest Thou?' Isa 10:15; Isa 14:27God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him. Nam 1:6How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my arguments with Him? Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me. Job 10:7If I had called, and He had answered me; yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice — He that would break me with a tempest, and multiply my wounds without cause; That would not suffer me to take my breath, but fill me with bitterness. If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! and if of justice, who will appoint me a time? Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me; though I be innocent, He shall prove me perverse. I am innocent — I regard not myself, I despise my life. It is all one — therefore I say: He destroyeth the innocent and the wicked. Job 34:9If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if it be not He, who then is it? Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. Job 7:7; Psa 90:10They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey. If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer', I am afraid of all my pains, I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless. I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain? Job 7:20If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; Jer 2:22Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment. Ecc 6:10; Jer 49:19There is no arbiter betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid; Psa 89:32Then would I speak, and not fear Him; for I am not so with myself.