Job 9
1 And he answered Job and he said.
Then answered Job, and said,
2 Truly I know that thus and what? will he be justified a person with God.
Truly I know that it is so: and how could a mortal be righteous before God?
3 If someone desires to conduct a case with him not he will answer him one [time] from a thousand.
If he were desirous to enter into a contest with him, he could not give him one answer out of a thousand.
4 Wise of heart and strong of power who? has he shown stubbornness to him and he has remained unharmed.
He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and escaped unscathed?
5 The [one who] removes mountains and not they know [the one] who he overturns them in anger his.
[He it is] who removeth mountains, and they know it not, yea, when he overturneth them in his anger;
6 The [one who] shakes [the] earth from place its and pillars its they tremble!
Who shaketh the earth loose out of her place, that her pillars tremble;
7 The [one who] speaks to the sun and not it shines and behind [the] stars he puts a seal.
Who speaketh to the sun, and he shineth not, and around the stars he placeth a seal;
8 [one who] stretches out [the] heavens To only him and [one who] treads on [the] high places of [the] sea.
Who spread out the heavens by himself alone, and treadeth upon the hillocks of the sea;
9 [one who] makes [the] Bear Orion and Pleiades and [the] chambers of [the] south.
Who made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers the south;
10 [one who] does Great [things] until there not [is] inquiry and wonders until there not [is] number.
Who doth great things which are quite unsearchable, and wonders which are quite without number.
11 There! he will pass by at me and not I will see [him] and he may pass on and not I will perceive him.
Lo, were he to go past by me, I should not see him; and were he to pass along, I should not perceive him.
12 There! he will snatch away who? will he turn back him who? will he say to him what? are you doing.
Behold, were he to snatch aught away, who could hold him back? who would say unto him, What dost thou?
13 God not he will turn back anger his (under him *Q(k)*) they lay prostrate [the] helpers of Rahab.
God will not withdraw his anger: beneath him sink down the helpers of the proud.
14 Indeed? for I I will answer him I will choose words my with him.
How much less then could I answer him, and select my words [to contend] with him?
15 [I] who Though I am righteous not I will answer to judge my I will seek favor.
Whom, were I even righteous, I could not answer? to him that condemneth me I could [only] make supplication.
16 If I called and he answered me not I believe that he gave ear to voice my.
Or were I to call, and he would answer me, I could yet not believe that he would give ear unto my voice—
17 [he] who With a storm he crushes me and he increases wounds my without cause.
He that bruiseth me with [his] tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without a cause.
18 Not he permits me to bring back breath my for he surfeits me bitter things.
He suffereth me not to recover my breath; but feedeth me overmuch with bitter things.
19 If to power a strong [one] there! and if to justice who? will he summon me.
If it regard strength, lo, he is the powerful; and if justice, who will cite him for me to appear?
20 Though I am righteous own mouth my it will condemn as guilty me [am] blameless I and it declared guilty me.
If I were righteous even, my own mouth would condemn me: were I innocent, it would still prove me perverse.
21 [am] blameless I not I know self my I reject life my.
I am innocent; I will not have regard for myself: I will despise my life.
22 [is] one It there-fore I say [the] blameless and [the] wicked he [is] bringing to an end.
One thing is [certain], therefore have I said it, The innocent and the wicked he bringeth to their end.
23 If a scourge it kills suddenly [the] despair of innocent [ones] he mocks.
If a scourge should slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the guiltless.
24 A land - it has been given in [the] hand of a wicked [person] [the] face of judges its he covers if not then who? [is] it.
Is a land given up into the hand of the wicked? he covereth the faces of its judges: if this be not the truth, who is it then?
25 And days my they have been swift more than a runner they have fled not they have seen good.
And my days pass swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no happiness,
26 They have passed on with ships of reed like an eagle [which] it rushes on food.
They hasten along like pirate ships: like the eagle that stoopeth down upon his food.
27 If to say I I will forget complaint my I will let loose face my and I will be cheerful.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sorrowful countenance, and recover my cheerfulness:
28 I dread all pains my I know that not you will acquit me.
O then would I be in dread of all my pains; I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent.
29 I I will be guilty why? this vanity will I labor.
I must ever be guilty: why then should I fatigue myself for nought?
30 If I washed myself (in water of *Q(K)*) snow and I cleansed with potash hands my.
If I were to wash myself in snow-water, to cleanse myself in the purity of my hands:
31 Then in pit you will dip me and they will abhor me own clothes my.
Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.
32 For not [he is] a human like me I will answer him we will come together in judgment.
For he is not a man, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest.
33 Not there between us [is] an arbiter he may put hand his on [the] two of us.
There is no one who can decide between us, who could lay his hand upon us both.
34 Let him remove from on me rod his and dread his may not it terrify me.
Let him but remove from me his rod, and let not his dread terrify me:
35 I will speak and not I will fear him for not [am] thus I with myself.
Then would I speak, and not fear him; for the like I feel not within me.
