18:009:001 Then Job answered and said,
18:009:002 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with
God?
18:009:003 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a
thousand.
18:009:004 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
himself against him, and hath prospered?
18:009:005 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which
overturneth them in his anger.
18:009:006 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars
thereof tremble.
18:009:007 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up
the stars.
18:009:008 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the
waves of the sea.
18:009:009 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers
of the south.
18:009:010 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
without number.
18:009:011 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but
I perceive him not.
18:009:012 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto
him, What doest thou?
18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop
under him.
18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to
reason with him?
18:009:015 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I
would make supplication to my judge.
18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not
believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds
without cause.
18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
bitterness.
18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment,
who shall set me a time to plead?
18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I
say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would
despise my life.
18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the
perfect and the wicked.
18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of
the innocent.
18:009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth
the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see
no good.
18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
hasteth to the prey.
18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my
heaviness, and comfort myself:
18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold
me innocent.
18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so
clean;
18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes
shall abhor me.
18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
should come together in judgment.
18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his
hand upon us both.
18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear
terrify me:
18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with
me.