Job 9:1 - Prayer Tents

Job Cannot Argue with His Creator

9This was Job's response:H347H6030H559 2"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?H3045H551H582H6663H410 3If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.H2654H7378H6030H259H505 4He is wise in heart and strong in will? who can be stubborn against him and succeed?H2450H3824H533H3581H7185H7999 5"He removes mountains without their knowledge, overthrowing them in his anger.H6275H2022H3045H2015H639 6He shakes the earth from its orbit, so that its foundations shudder.H7264H776H4725H5982H6426 7He commands the sun so that it doesn't shine and seals up the stars.H559H2775H2224H2856H3556 8He alone spreads out the heavens, he walks on the waves of the sea.H5186H8064H1869H1116H3220 9He created Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the southern constellations.H6213H5906H3685H3598H2315H8486 10He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.H6213H1419H369H2714H6381H4557 11"If he were to pass near me, I wouldn't notice; if he moves by, I wouldn't perceive him.H5674H7200H2498H995 12Indeed, if he snatches someone away, who could restrain him? Who can say to him, 'What are you doing?'H2862H7725H559H6213 13"God doesn't restrain his anger. Rahab's assistants are humiliated under him.H433H7725H639H7293H5826H7817 14So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?H6030H977H1697 15Even if I'm in the right, I cannot answer him. I can only appeal for mercy.H6663H6030H2603H8199 16"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.H7121H6030H539H238H6963 17For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.H7779H8183H7235H6482H2600 18He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness.H5414H7725H7307H7646H4472 19"Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger! Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him?H3581H533H4941H3259 20Though I'm in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I'm blameless, he'll pronounce me as guilty.H6663H6310H7561H8535H6140 21"I'm blameless; I don't know myself; I despise my life.H8535H3045H5315H3988H2416 22I say it's all the same? he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.H259H559H3615H8535H7563 23If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.H7752H4191H6597H3932H4531H5355 24A land is given into the hands of a wicked person; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not God, then who is it?"H776H5414H3027H7563H3680H6440H8199H645

Job Argues that God Won’t Acquit Him

25"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.H3117H7043H7323H1272H7200H2896 26They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.H2498H5973H16H591H5404H2907H400 27If I were to say, 'Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,H559H7911H7879H5800H6440H1082 28then I still dread all of my suffering; I know you still won't acquit me.H3025H6094H3045H5352 29I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility?H7561H3021H1892 30"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,H7364H7950H4325H1119H3709H1252H1253H2141 31you'll still drop me into the Pit; and my own clothes will despise me.H227H2881H7845H8008H8581 32He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.H376H6030H935H3162H4941 33There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,H3426H3198H7896H3027H8147 34removing his rod from me; and not letting terror of him overwhelm me.H5493H7626H5493H367H1204 35Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."H1696H3372