Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said:
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--
Job 9:5 (show verse)
he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger,
Job 9:6 (show verse)
who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
Job 9:7 (show verse)
who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
Job 9:8 (show verse)
who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
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Job 9:9 (show verse)
who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
Job 9:10 (show verse)
who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?'
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
"God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
Job 9:14 (show verse)
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
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Job 9:16 (show verse)
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
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Job 9:17 (show verse)
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Job 9:18 (show verse)
he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
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Job 9:20 (show verse)
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
Job 9:24 (show verse)
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it?
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Job 9:25 (show verse)
"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
Job 9:27 (show verse)
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,'
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
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Job 9:29 (show verse)
I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
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Job 9:30 (show verse)
If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 9:31 (show verse)
yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
Job 9:32 (show verse)
For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
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Job 9:33 (show verse)
There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
Job 9:34 (show verse)
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
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