Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
JOB RESPONDED:
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If one wished to argue with God, he could not answer or respond to him once in a thousand times.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
God 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 when he overturns them in his anger!
Job 9:6 (show verse)
He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.
Job 9:7 (show verse)
He commands the sun and it does not rise! He seals off 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 made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.
Job 9:10 (show verse)
He does great things beyond our understanding, yes, marvelous wonders without number.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
He goes by me and I do not see. He moves past and I do not perceive him.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
He takes away and who can hinder God? Who can say to God: 'What are you doing?'
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
God will not withdraw his anger. The allies of the proud lie thrown down beneath him.
Job 9:14 (show verse)
How then can I answer God and choose my words in order to reason with him?
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Though I was righteous, I could not answer him! I would beg mercy of my Judge.
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Job 9:16 (show verse)
If I called and he answered me, I would not believe that God was listening to my voice.
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Job 9:17 (show verse)
He crushes me with a tempest. He multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18 (show verse)
He will not allow me to catch my breath. Yet he fills me with bitterness.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
If I speak of strength and justice, he is strong! Who will appoint my day in court?
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Job 9:20 (show verse)
Though I was righteous, my own mouth would condemn me. If I were blameless it would prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
I am blameless! Yet I do not know myself. And I despise my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
It is all one thing. Therefore I say: God destroys the blameless and the wicked.
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
If the scourge slays suddenly, God laughs at the plight 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 God, who else could it be?
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Job 9:25 (show verse)
My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey.
Job 9:27 (show verse)
If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
I am afraid of all my suffering and I know that God will not hold me innocent.
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Job 9:29 (show verse)
If I am condemned, why then do I labor in vain?
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Job 9:30 (show verse)
If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,
Job 9:31 (show verse)
Yet you will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
Job 9:32 (show verse)
God is not a man, as I am: That I may answer him and we should go to court together.
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Job 9:33 (show verse)
Nor is there any mediator between us who may lay his hand on us both.
Job 9:34 (show verse)
Let God remove his rod from me. Do not let dread of him terrify me.
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
I would speak and not respect God. But I cannot do this!
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