Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
And Job answered and said,
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?
Job 9:5 (show verse)
Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;
Job 9:6 (show verse)
Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;
Job 9:7 (show verse)
Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;
Job 9:8 (show verse)
Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;
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Job 9:9 (show verse)
Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
Job 9:10 (show verse)
Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
+God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:
Job 9:14 (show verse)
How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words to strive with him?
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
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Job 9:16 (show verse)
If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --
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Job 9:17 (show verse)
He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18 (show verse)
He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
Be it a question of strength, lo, he is strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?
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Job 9:20 (show verse)
If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
Were I perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24 (show verse)
The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked man; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?
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Job 9:25 (show verse)
And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Eagles, a type of swiftness
Eagle » The swift flight of
Eagles » A bird of prey
Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
Ships » Described as » Swift
Eagle » The swift flight of
Eagles » A bird of prey
Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
Ships » Described as » Swift
Job 9:27 (show verse)
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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Job 9:29 (show verse)
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
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Job 9:30 (show verse)
If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
Job 9:31 (show verse)
Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
Job 9:32 (show verse)
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.
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Job 9:33 (show verse)
There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34 (show verse)
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
Then I will speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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