Job 9

CHAPTER 9 Job Responds to Baldad

1 And undertaking, Job says, 2 In truth I know that it is so; for how shall there be a just mortal before the lord? 3 For if he should want to enter into judgment with him, in no way shall God obey him, so that he shall not contradict with one word of his from out of a thousand. 4 [³wise ¹For ²he is] in thought, fortified also, and great. Who [²hard ¹being] before him even made peace? 5 The [²of old ¹mountains] even do not know the one eradicating them in anger. 6 The one shaking the thing under heaven from its foundations, and the columns of it shake. 7 The one speaking to the sun, and it does not rise; and accordingly [²the stars ¹he seals up]. 8 The one stretching the heaven alone, and walking [³as ⁴upon ⁵a floor ¹upon ²the sea]. 9 The one making Pleiades and Hesperus and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south. 10 The one doing great and untraceable things; honorable also, and extraordinary things which there is no number. 11 If he should pass over me, in no way shall I behold it; and if he should go by me, neither thus I knew it. 12 If he dismisses, who returns? or who shall say to him, What did you do? 13 God will not turn away the anger, [²under ³him ¹but ⁷were bent ⁴the whales ⁵under ⁶heaven]. 14 But then should he obey me, or shall he litigate my things? 15 [²even if ¹For ⁴just ³I should be] shall he listen not to me? his equity I will beseech. 16 And if I should call and he should hearken, I do not trust that he has listened to my voice. 17 [²not ⁴by dimness ¹He should ³obliterate me]; but many of my bruises he has made without cause. 18 [⁴not ²he allows ¹For ³me] to breathe, and he filled me with bitterness. 19 For indeed by strength he prevails; who then [²his judgment ¹shall oppose]? 20 For if I might be just, my mouth will be impious; and though I might be blameless, [²perverse ¹I shall turn out]. 21 For whether I was impious, I do not know in soul; besides, [²is removed ³from me ¹life]. 22 Therefore I said, [²the great ³and ⁴mighty one ¹he destroys] in wrath. 23 For the vile [²in ³death ¹are extraordinary], but the just are ridiculed. 24 For they are delivered into the hands of the impious; [²the faces ³of her judges ¹he covers up]; but if not he, who is it? 25 But my existence is lighter than a runner; my days ran away, and they knew it not. 26 Or also is there [²of ships ¹a trace] in the way? or a trace of an eagle flying seeking prey? 27 For if also I said, I shall forget about speaking, I will stoop down my countenance and I will moan. 28 I shake in all my limbs, for I know that [²not ⁴me be innocent ¹you will ³let]. 29 But since I am impious, for why is this [²in vain ¹I labor]? 30 For if I should wash myself off with snow, and should clear away my hands clean, 31 fittingly in my filth you dipped me; [³abhorred ¹and ⁴me ²my apparel]. 32 [³not ¹For ²you are] a man like me, with whom I can judge by comparison, that we should come with one accord for judgment. 33 If indeed [²was present ¹our mediator], and the one reproving, and the one hearing between both, 34 let him dismiss [³from ⁴me ¹the ²rod], [³the ¹and ⁴fear ⁵of him ²let not] whirl about, 35 and in no way shall I fear, but I will speak, for I am not thus conscious of guilt.