T<\/span>hen Job answered and said,<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us 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>Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.<\/span> <\/p>\n