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JOB 9:1–9:35 ©

Job: How Can I Contend with God?

Job: How Can I Contend with God?

9Then Job answered:

2“Yes, I know that [it is] so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

3If one wished to contend with [God],[fn] he could not answer Him one [time] out of a thousand.

4[God is] wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

5He moves mountains without their knowledge [and] overturns them in His anger.

6He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

7He commands the sun not to shine;[fn] He seals off the stars.

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

9He is the Maker of the Bear [and] Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

10He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

11Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.

12If He takes away,[fn] who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

15For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

16If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him[fn]?

20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.[fn]

21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

23When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair 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?

25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

27If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint [and] change my expression and smile,’

28I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

30If I should wash myself with snow[fn] and cleanse my hands with lye,

31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

33Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

34Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

35Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is I am on my own.[’’]


9:3 Or If God wished to contend with someone

9:7 Or rise

9:12 Or snatches someone in death

9:19 See LXX; Hebrew me

9:20 Or He would declare me guilty

9:30 Or soap

JOB 9:1–9:35 ©

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