Jó 9

1 Then Job answered,

2 "Truly I know that it is so,

3 If he is pleased to contend with him,

4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.

5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,

6 He shakes the earth out of its place.

7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,

8 He alone stretches out the heavens,

9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,

10 He does great things past finding out;

11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.

12 Behold, he snatches away.

13 "God will not withdraw his anger.

14 How much less will I answer him,

15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.

16 If I had called, and he had answered me,

17 For he breaks me with a storm,

18 He will not allow me to catch my breath,

19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!

20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.

21 I am blameless.

22 "It is all the same.

23 If the scourge kills suddenly,

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.

25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner.

26 They have passed away as the swift ships,

27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,

28 I am afraid of all my sorrows.

29 I will be condemned.

30 If I wash myself with snow,

31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch.

32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,

33 There is no umpire between us,

34 Let him take his rod away from me.

35 then I would speak, and not fear him,