en_wbms - Job 9 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ And Job answered, and said,

² Verily I know, that it is so, and that a man comparisoned to God shall not be made just [or justified].

³ If he will strive with God, he may not answer to God one for a thousand.

⁴ He is wise in heart, and strong in might; who hath against-stood him, and had peace?

⁵ He bare over hills from one place to another, and they knew not; which he destroyed in his strong vengeance.

⁶ Which stirreth the earth from his place, and the pillars thereof shall shake altogether.

⁷ He commandeth to the sun, and it riseth not; and he closeth up the stars, as under a signet.

⁸ He alone stretcheth forth heavens, and he goeth upon the waves of the sea.

⁹ He maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Pleiades, that is, the seven stars, and the inner things of the south.

¹⁰ He maketh great things, and that may not be sought out, and also wonderful things, of which there is none number.

¹¹ If he cometh to me, I shall not see him; if he goeth away from me, I shall not understand.

¹² If he asketh suddenly, who shall answer to him? either who may say to him, Why doest thou so?

¹³ He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand; and under whom they be bowed, that bear the world.

¹⁴ How great am I, that I answer to him, and speak by my words with him?

¹⁵ Which also shall not answer to him, though I have anything just [or right]; but I shall beseech my judge to spare me.

¹⁶ And when he hath heard me inwardly calling him, I believe not, that he hath heard my voice.

¹⁷ For in a whirlwind he shall all-break me, and he shall multiply my wounds, yea, without cause.

¹⁸ He granteth not, that my spirit have rest, and he filleth me with bitternesses.

¹⁹ If strength is sought, he is most strong; and if equity of doom is sought, no man dare yield witnessing for me.

²⁰ If I will make me just [or justify me], my own mouth shall condemn me; if I shall show me innocent, he shall prove me a shrew.

²¹ Yea, though I be simple, my soul shall not know this same thing; and it shall annoy me of my life.

²² One thing is, which I spake, he shall waste by death also the innocent and [the] wicked man.

²³ If he beateth, slay he once, and laugh he not of the pains of innocent men.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; he covereth the faces of judges; that if he is not, who there-fore is?

²⁵ My days were swifter than a courier; they fled away, and saw not good.

²⁶ They passed away as [the] ships bearing apples, as an eagle flying to meat.

²⁷ When I say, I shall not speak so; I change my face, and I am tormented with sorrow.

²⁸ I dread all my works, witting that thou sparest not the trespasser.

²⁹ And if I am also thus wicked, why have I travailed in vain?

³⁰ Though I am washed as with waters of snow, and though mine hands shine as most clean,

³¹ nevertheless thou shalt dip me in filths, and my clothes shall hold, or show, me abominable.

³² Truly I shall not answer a man, that is like me; neither that may be heard evenly with me in doom.

³³ There is none, that may reprove ever either, and set [or put] his hand in both.

³⁴ Do he away his rod from me, and his dread make not me afeared.

³⁵ I shall speak, and I shall not dread him; for I may not answer dreading.