Job 9
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Then Job answered,
1And Job answered, and said:
2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
2Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.
3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?
5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
5Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.
6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
7Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:
8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.
9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
9Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.
10He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
10Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.
11Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
11If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.
12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
12If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?
13“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
13God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
14How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
14What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
15I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.
16If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
16And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
17For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.
18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
18He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
19If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.
20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
20If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.
21I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
21Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.
22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
22One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
23If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?
25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
25My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
26They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
27If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
28I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
29I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
30If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:
31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
31Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
32For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
33There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
33There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
35then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
35I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.
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