1 Then Job answered, NHEB — Job 9:1
2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? NHEB — Job 9:2
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand. NHEB — Job 9:3
4 For he is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? NHEB — Job 9:4
5 He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger. NHEB — Job 9:5
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. NHEB — Job 9:6
7 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars. NHEB — Job 9:7
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea. NHEB — Job 9:8
9 He makes Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, and the chambers of the south. NHEB — Job 9:9
10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number. NHEB — Job 9:10
11 Look, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He passes on also, but I do not perceive him. NHEB — Job 9:11
12 Look, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?' NHEB — Job 9:12
13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. NHEB — Job 9:13
14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him? NHEB — Job 9:14
15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make petition to my judge. NHEB — Job 9:15
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice. NHEB — Job 9:16
17 For he bruises me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause. NHEB — Job 9:17
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. NHEB — Job 9:18
19 If it is a matter of strength, look, he is mighty. And if of justice, who will summon him? NHEB — Job 9:19
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. NHEB — Job 9:20
21 I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life. NHEB — Job 9:21
22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. NHEB — Job 9:22
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent. NHEB — Job 9:23
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? NHEB — Job 9:24
25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, NHEB — Job 9:25
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey. NHEB — Job 9:26
27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;' NHEB — Job 9:27
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. NHEB — Job 9:28
29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? NHEB — Job 9:29
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with lye, NHEB — Job 9:30
31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me. NHEB — Job 9:31
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment. NHEB — Job 9:32
33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both. NHEB — Job 9:33
34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid; NHEB — Job 9:34
35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself. NHEB — Job 9:35