“Then Job answered”
Job 9
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Keith Daniel4
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George Warnock3
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1Then Job answered:
“then Job answered”
“Then Job answered,”
“then Job answered and said,”
“Then Job answered and said”
2"Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
“I know it is so of a truth, but how should man be just with God?”
“I know it is so of a truth, but how should a man be just with God?”
“I know it is so of a truth but how should a man be just with God”
3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”
“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.”
“If one wished to dispute with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times.”
“If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.”
“If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one in a thousand”
4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
“he is wise in heart and mighty in strength. And who has hardened himself against him and”
“He is wise in heart, mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and succeeded?”
“God is wise in heart and mighty in strength, but who has hardened himself against him God and prospered.”
5He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
“which removeth the mountains, and they know it not, which overturneth them in his anger,”
6He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.
“which shakes the earth out of her place and the pillars thereof tremble.”
“which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble,”
7He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
“which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars.”
8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
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9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
“makes Arcturus, Orion and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.”
10He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
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11Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.
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12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, 'What are You doing?'
“He snatches away. Who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, what are You doing?”
13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
“If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.”
14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
“How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to reason with him.”
15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
“Whom though I were righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplications to my judge.”
16If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
“If I had called and he had answered me, yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice”
17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
“for he breaketh me with a tempest and multiplied my wounds without cause”
18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
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19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him ?
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20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
“If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me. If I say I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”
21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
“Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul, I would despise my life.”
22It is all the same, and so I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
“This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.”
“This is the one thing, therefore, I said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.”
23When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
“If the scourge slays suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.”
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
“The earth is given into the hand of the wicked and he covers the faces of the judges. Therefore, if not where and who is he?”
25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
“Now my days are swifter than a post. They flee away and they see no good.”
26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
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27If I were to say, 'I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,'
“If I say I'll forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself.”
28I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
“I am afraid of all of my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.”
29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
“If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?”
30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
“if I would wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean,”
“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean,”
31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
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32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
“For he is not a man as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.”
“he is not a man as I am, that I should answer him and that we could come together in judgment.”
“He is not a man as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.”
“is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.”
33Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
“Neither is there any daysman betwixt us that might lay his hand upon us both.”
“neither is there any dazed man betwixt us that might lay his hand upon us both.”
34Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
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35Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.
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