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Iob 9

¹Then Iob answered, and said,

²I know it is so of a trueth: but howe should man be iust with God.

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

⁴He is wise in heart, and mightie in strength: who hath hardened himselfe against him, and hath prospered?

⁵Which remoueth the mountains, and they know not: which ouerturneth them in his anger:

⁶Which shaketh the earth out of her place, & the pillars thereof tremble:

⁷Which commandeth the Sunne, and it riseth not: and sealeth vp the starres.

⁸Which alone spreadeth out the heauens, and treadeth vpon the waues of the Sea.

⁹Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South.

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

¹¹Loe, hee goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceiue him not.

¹²Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say vnto him, What doest thou?

¹³If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers doe stoupe vnder him.

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

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

¹⁶If I had called, and had answered me, yet would I not beleeue that he had hearkened vnto my voice:

¹⁷For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

¹⁸Hee will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.

¹⁹If I speake of strength, loe, hee is strong: and if of iudgement, who shall set me a time to pleade?

²⁰If I iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prooue me peruerse.

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

²²This is one thing, therefore I said it; he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

²³If the scourge slay suddenly, hee will laugh at the triall of the innocent.

²⁴The earth is giuen into the hand of the wicked: he couereth the faces of the Iudges thereof; if not, where, and who is hee?

²⁵Now my dayes are swifter then a Poste: they flee away, they see no good.

²⁶They are passed away as the ships: as the Eagle that hasteth to the pray.

²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe.

²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrowes, I know that thou wilt not holde me innocent.

²⁹If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine?

³⁰If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane:

³¹Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall abhorre me.

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

³³Neither is there any dayes-man betwixt vs, that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

³⁴Let him take his rodde away from me, & let not his feare terrifie me:

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