1<\/sup>And Job answered, and said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>The 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?<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean :<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.<\/span> <\/p>\n