1<\/sup>And Job, responding, said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?”<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world,<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>If strength is sought, he is most strong; if equity in judgment, no one would dare to give testimony for me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.<\/span> <\/p>\n