Job 9:25-35 - My Life Is Speeding By

²⁵ My days fly by faster than a runner;
they flee without seeing any good.
²⁶ They sweep by like boats made of papyrus,
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
²⁷ If I said, “I will forget my complaint,
change my expression, and smile,”
²⁸ I would still live in terror of all my pains.
I know You will not acquit me.
²⁹ Since I will be found guilty,
why should I labor in vain?
³⁰ If I wash myself with snow,
and cleanse my hands with lye,
³¹ then You dip me in a pit of mud,
and my own clothes despise me!

³² For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him,
that we can take each other to court.
³³ There is no one to judge between us,
to lay his hand on both of us.
³⁴ Let Him take His rod away from me
so His terror will no longer frighten me.
³⁵ Then I would speak and not fear Him.
But that is not the case; I am on my own.

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