Job 9 — DRA
9Verse 1And Job answered, and said:Verse 2Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.Verse 3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.Verse 4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?Verse 5Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.Verse 6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.Verse 7Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:Verse 8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.Verse 9Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.Verse 10Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.Verse 11If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.Verse 12If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?Verse 13God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.Verse 14What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?Verse 15I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.Verse 16And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.Verse 17For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.Verse 18He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.Verse 19If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.Verse 20If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.Verse 21Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.Verse 22One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.Verse 23If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.Verse 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?Verse 25My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.Verse 26They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.Verse 27If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.Verse 28I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.Verse 29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?Verse 30If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:Verse 31Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,Verse 32For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.Verse 33There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.Verse 34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.Verse 35I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.