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1 - Then Job answered,

2 - "Truly I know that it is so,but how can man be just with God?

3 - If he is pleased to contend with him,he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

4 - God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

5 - He removes the mountains, and they don't know it,when he overturns them in his anger.

6 - He shakes the earth out of its place.Its pillars tremble.

7 - He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise,and seals up the stars.

8 - He alone stretches out the heavens,and treads on the waves of the sea.

9 - He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,and the rooms of the south.

10 - He does great things past finding out;yes, marvelous things without number.

11 - Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him.He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

12 - Behold, he snatches away.Who can hinder him?Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

13 - "God will not withdraw his anger.The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

14 - How much less shall I answer him,And choose my words to argue with him?

15 - Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him.I would make supplication to my judge.

16 - If I had called, and he had answered me,yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

17 - For he breaks me with a storm,and multiplies my wounds without cause.

18 - He will not allow me to catch my breath,but fills me with bitterness.

19 - If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

20 - Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me.Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

21 - I am blameless.I don't respect myself.I despise my life.

22 - "It is all the same.Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

23 - If the scourge kills suddenly,he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

24 - The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.He covers the faces of its judges.If not he, then who is it?

25 - "Now my days are swifter than a runner.They flee away, they see no good.

26 - They have passed away as the swift ships,as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

27 - If I say, 'I will forget my complaint,I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

28 - I am afraid of all my sorrows,I know that you will not hold me innocent.

29 - I shall be condemned.Why then do I labor in vain?

30 - If I wash myself with snow,and cleanse my hands with lye,

31 - yet you will plunge me in the ditch.My own clothes shall abhor me.

32 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,that we should come together in judgment.

33 - There is no umpire between us,that might lay his hand on us both.

34 - Let him take his rod away from me.Let his terror not make me afraid;

35 - then I would speak, and not fear him,for I am not so in myself.

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