Job 9:1-22
English Standard Version
Chapter 9
1Then Job answered and said:
2"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
3If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength— who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? —
5he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger,
6who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
7who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
8who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
9who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
10who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.
11Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
12Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13"God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
14 How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
15 Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
16If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
17For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
18he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
20Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
22It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
