Job 9

Job 9:7

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

Who, when he pleaseth, can command the sun not to rise in the morning, that it may make day; and can forbid the stars to appear in the evening, and restrain the succession of the night. L 2

Job 9:9

Which maketh Areturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Who ordereth all the set seasons of the year; and both maketh and disposeth of those remarkable constellations, by which the four seasons of the year are sensibly distinguished and governed; Areturus which ariseth in autumn, Orion in winter, Pleiades or the seven stars in the spring; and those other stars, which lie hidden in the southern coasts of heaven, which rise to us in the heat of summer.

Job 9:21

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Though I were perfect, yet would I not stand out in the justification of myself before his presence; but, if he have determined my death, would willingly surrender my life into his hands.

Job 9:22

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

This is one especial thing, that I have noted and justly stood upon, that the outward proceedings of God are indifferent towards all: he taketh away both the upright and the wicked man.

Job 9:24

He covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

He bringeth contempt upon the great rulers of the earth; and if it be not he that doth it, where and who is he besides, that hath this power, and executes these judgments?

Job 9:31

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Let me seem never so pure in mine own eyes, yet, O Lord, the rigour of thy justice shall show me as foul, as the man that is plunged in some filthy ditch; who is so defiled, that his very clothes make him more loathsome.