Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered,
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Job 9:5 (show verse)
He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
Job 9:6 (show verse)
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
Job 9:7 (show verse)
He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.
Job 9:8 (show verse)
He alone stretches 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 chambers of the south.
Job 9:10 (show verse)
He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
Behold, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He passes on also, but I do not perceive him.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Job 9:14 (show verse)
How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. 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, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
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Job 9:17 (show verse)
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18 (show verse)
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty. If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
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Job 9:20 (show verse)
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
"It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial 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 not he, then who is it?
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Job 9:25 (show verse)
"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on 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 put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that 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 in the ditch. My own clothes shall 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 no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
Job 9:34 (show verse)
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
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