Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered:
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength -- who has resisted him and remained safe?
Job 9:5 (show verse)
He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;
Job 9:6 (show verse)
he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;
Job 9:7 (show verse)
he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;
Job 9:8 (show verse)
he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
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Job 9:9 (show verse)
he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;
Job 9:10 (show verse)
he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, 'What are you doing?'
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.
Job 9:14 (show verse)
"How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
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Job 9:16 (show verse)
If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice --
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Job 9:17 (show verse)
he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
Job 9:18 (show verse)
He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, 'Who will summon me?'
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Job 9:20 (show verse)
Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
"It is all one! That is why I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the guilty.'
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
Job 9:24 (show verse)
If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?
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Job 9:25 (show verse)
"My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
Job 9:27 (show verse)
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,'
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
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Job 9:29 (show verse)
If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
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Job 9:30 (show verse)
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
Job 9:31 (show verse)
then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
Job 9:32 (show verse)
For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
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Job 9:33 (show verse)
Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,
Job 9:34 (show verse)
who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.
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