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Job 9 (AMP)

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¹ THEN JOB answered and said, ² Yes, I know it is true. But how can mortal man be right before God? ³ If one should want to contend with Him, he cannot answer one in a thousand. ⁴ is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against Him and prospered or even been safe? ⁵ Who removes the mountains, and they know it not when He overturns them in His anger; ⁶ Who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble; ⁷ Who commands the sun, and it rises not; Who seals up the stars ; ⁸ Who alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the waves and high places of the sea; ⁹ Who made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the spaces of the south; ¹⁰ Who does great things past finding out, yes, marvelous things without number. ¹¹ Behold, He goes by me, and I see Him not; He passes on also, but I perceive Him not. ¹² Behold, He snatches away; who can hinder or turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing? ¹³ God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab bow under Him. ¹⁴ How much less shall I answer Him, choosing out my words to reason with Him ¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous (upright and innocent) yet I could not answer? I must appeal for mercy to my Opponent and Judge . ¹⁶ If I called and He answered me, yet would I not believe that He listened to my voice. ¹⁷ For He overwhelms and breaks me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause. ¹⁸ He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. ¹⁹ If I speak of strength, behold, He is mighty! And if of justice, Who, says He, will summon Me? ²⁰ Though I am innocent and in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, He would prove me perverse. ²¹ Though I am blameless, I regard not myself; I despise my life. ²² It is all one; therefore I say, God destroys the blameless and the wicked. ²³ When scourge slays suddenly, He mocks at the calamity and trial of the innocent. ²⁴ The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges . If it is not , who then is it ? ²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. ²⁶ They are passed away like the swift rowboats made of reeds, or like the eagle that swoops down on the prey. ²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer and brighten up, ²⁸ I become afraid of all my pains and sorrows , for I know You will not pronounce me innocent . ²⁹ I shall be held guilty and be condemned; why then should I labor in vain ? ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹ Yet You will plunge me into the ditch, and my own clothes will abhor me . ³² For is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in court. ³³ There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both, ³⁴ That He might take His rod away from me, and that the fear of Him might not terrify me. ³⁵ would I speak and not fear Him, but I am not so in myself .