en_cepher - Job 9 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ THEN Iyov answered and said,

² I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with El?

³ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?

⁵ Which removes the mountains, and they know not: which overturns them in his anger.

⁶ Which shakes the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

⁷ Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.

⁸ Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea.

⁹ Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

¹⁰ Which does great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

¹¹ Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.

¹² Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What do you?

¹³ If Eloah will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

¹⁷ For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

¹⁸ He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

¹⁹ If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

²⁰ If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

²¹ Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

²² This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

²⁹ If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

³¹ Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

³³ Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

³⁵ Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.