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1 - Then Job answered,

2 - “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

3 - If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

4 - God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

5 - He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

6 - He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

7 - He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

8 - He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

9 - He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

10 - He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

11 - Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

12 - Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

13 - “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

14 - How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

15 - Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

16 - If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

17 - For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

18 - He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

19 - If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

20 - Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

21 - I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

22 - “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

23 - If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

24 - The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

25 - “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

26 - They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

27 - If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’

28 - I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

29 - I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

30 - If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

31 - yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall 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 no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

34 - Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

35 - then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.