9Then Job answered:H347H6030H559 2"Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God?H3045H551H582H6663H410 3If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.H2654H7378H6030H259H505 4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength—who has resisted him, and succeeded?—H2450H3824H533H3581H7185H7999 5he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger;H6275H2022H3045H2015H639 6who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;H7264H776H4725H5982H6426 7who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;H559H2775H2224H2856H3556 8who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the Sea;H5186H8064H1869H1116H3220 9who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;H6213H5906H3685H3598H2315H8486 10who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.H6213H1419H369H2714H6381H4557 11Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.H5674H7200H2498H995 12He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?'H2862H7725H559H6213 13"God will not turn back his anger; the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.H433H7725H639H7293H5826H7817 14How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?H6030H977H1697 15Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.H6663H6030H2603H8199 16If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.H7121H6030H539H238H6963 17For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;H7779H8183H7235H6482H2600 18he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.H5414H7725H7307H7646H4472 19If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?H3581H533H4941H3259 20Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.H6663H6310H7561H8535H6140 21I am blameless; I do not know myself; I loathe my life.H8535H3045H5315H3988H2416 22It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.H259H559H3615H8535H7563 23When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.H7752H4191H6597H3932H4531H5355 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges—if it is not he, who then is it?H776H5414H3027H7563H3680H6440H8199H645 25"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.H3117H7043H7323H1272H7200H2896 26They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.H2498H5973H16H591H5404H2907H400 27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,'H559H7911H7879H5800H6440H1082 28I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.H3025H6094H3045H5352 29I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?H7561H3021H1892 30If I wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,H7364H7950H4325H1119H3709H1252H1253H2141 31yet you will plunge me into filth, and my own clothes will abhor me.H227H2881H7845H8008H8581 32For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.H376H6030H935H3162H4941 33There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand on us both.H3426H3198H7896H3027H8147 34If he would take his rod away from me, and not let dread of him terrify me,H5493H7626H5493H367H1204 35then I would speak without fear of him, for I know I am not what I am thought to be.H1696H3372
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