Job 9
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Then Job answered,
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“Truly I know that it is so,
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If he is pleased to contend with him,
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God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
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He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
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He shakes the earth out of its place.
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He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,
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He alone stretches out the heavens,
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He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
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He does great things past finding out;
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Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
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Behold, he snatches away.
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“God will not withdraw his anger.
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How much less will I answer him,
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Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.
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If I had called, and he had answered me,
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For he breaks me with a storm,
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He will not allow me to catch my breath,
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If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!
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Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.
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I am blameless.
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“It is all the same.
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If the scourge kills suddenly,
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
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“Now my days are swifter than a runner.
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They have passed away as the swift ships,
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If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
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I am afraid of all my sorrows.
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I will be condemned.
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If I wash myself with snow,
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yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
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There is no umpire between us,
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Let him take his rod away from me.
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then I would speak, and not fear him,