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Job 9

¹Yes, I've heard all that before. But how can a human being win a case against God?

³How can anyone argue with him? He can ask a thousand questions that no one could ever answer.

⁴God is so wise and powerful; no one can stand up against him.

⁵Without warning he moves mountains and in anger he destroys them.

⁶God sends earthquakes and shakes the ground; he rocks the pillars that support the earth.

⁷He can keep the sun from rising, and the stars from shining at night.

⁸No one helped God spread out the heavens or trample the sea monster's back.

⁹God hung the stars in the sky---the Dipper, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south.

¹⁰We cannot understand the great things he does, and to his miracles there is no end.

¹¹God passes by, but I cannot see him.

¹²He takes what he wants, and no one can stop him; no one dares ask him, "What are you doing?"

¹³God's anger is constant. He crushed his enemies who helped Rahab, the sea monster, oppose him.

¹⁴So how can I find words to answer God?

¹⁵Though I am innocent, all I can do is beg for mercy from God my judge.

¹⁶Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me.

¹⁷He sends storms to batter and bruise me without any reason at all.

¹⁸He won't let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness.

¹⁹Should I try force? Try force on God? Should I take him to court? Could anyone make him go?

²⁰I am innocent and faithful, but my words sound guilty, and everything I say seems to condemn me.

²¹I am innocent, but I no longer care. I am sick of living. Nothing matters; innocent or guilty, God will destroy us.

²³When an innocent person suddenly dies, God laughs.

²⁴God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind. And if God didn't do it, who did?

²⁵My days race by, not one of them good.

²⁶My life passes like the swiftest boat, as fast as an eagle swooping down on a rabbit.

²⁷If I smile and try to forget my pain, all my suffering comes back to haunt me; I know that God does hold me guilty.

²⁹Since I am held guilty, why should I bother?

³⁰No soap can wash away my sins.

³¹God throws me into a pit with filth, and even my clothes are ashamed of me.

³²If God were human, I could answer him; we could go to court to decide our quarrel.

³³But there is no one to step between us--- no one to judge both God and me.

³⁴Stop punishing me, God! Keep your terrors away!

³⁵I am not afraid. I am going to talk because I know my own heart.