Job 9
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Job Answers Bildad
1Then Job answered:
2“Yes, I know that this is true,
but how can anyone be right in the presence of God?
3Someone might want to argue with God,
but no one could answer God,
not one time out of a thousand.
4God’s wisdom is deep, and his power is great;
no one can fight him without getting hurt.
5God moves mountains without anyone knowing it
and turns them over when he is angry.
6He shakes the earth out of its place
and makes its foundations tremble.
7He commands the sun not to shine
and shuts off the light of the stars.
8He alone stretches out the skies
and walks on the waves of the sea.
9It is God who made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades
and the groups of stars in the southern sky.
10He does wonders that cannot be understood;
he does so many miracles they cannot be counted.
11When he passes me, I cannot see him;
when he goes by me, I do not recognize him.
12If he snatches something away, no one can stop him
or say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13God will not hold back his anger.
Even the helpers of the monster Rahab lie at his feet in fear.
14So how can I argue with God,
or even find words to argue with him?
15Even if I were right, I could not answer him;
I could only beg God, my Judge, for mercy.
16If I called to him and he answered,
I still don’t believe he would listen to me.
17He would crush me with a storm
and multiply my wounds for no reason.
18He would not let me catch my breath
but would overwhelm me with misery.
19When it comes to strength, God is stronger than I;
when it comes to justice, no one can accuse him.
20Even if I were right, my own mouth would say I was wrong;
if I were innocent, my mouth would say I was guilty.
21“I am innocent,
but I don’t care about myself.
I hate my own life.
22It is all the same. That is why I say,
‘God destroys both the innocent and the guilty.’
23If the whip brings sudden death,
God will laugh at the suffering of the innocent.
24When the land falls into the hands of evil people,
he covers the judges’ faces so they can’t see it.
If it is not God who does this, then who is it?
25“My days go by faster than a runner;
they fly away without my seeing any joy.
26They glide past like paper boats.
They attack like eagles swooping down to feed.
27Even though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint;
I will change the look on my face and smile,’
28I still dread all my suffering.
I know you will hold me guilty.
29I have already been found guilty,
so why should I struggle for no reason?
30I might wash myself with soap
and scrub my hands with strong soap,
31but you would push me into a dirty pit,
and even my clothes would hate me.
32“God is not human like me, so I cannot answer him.
We cannot meet each other in court.
33I wish there were someone to make peace between us,
someone to decide our case.
34Maybe he could remove God’s punishment
so his terror would no longer frighten me.
35Then I could speak without being afraid,
but I am not able to do that.
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Job 9
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Job 9
1¶ Then Job answered and said,
2I know it is so of a truth, but how shall a man be justified with God?
3If he desires to contend with him, he will not be able to answer him one thing of a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against him and remained in peace?
5Who uproots the mountains in his anger, and they know not who overturned them.
6Who removes the earth out of her place and causes her pillars to tremble.
7Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
8He alone extends the heavens and walks upon the waves of the sea.
9He who made Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the secret places of the south.
10He who does great things past finding out, and wonders without number.
11Behold, he shall pass before me, and I shall not see him; and he shall pass on, and I shall not understand him.
12Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?
13God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.
14¶ How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to reason with him?
15Who even though I am righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
16Who if I were to invoke him, and he answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.
18He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness.
19If we were to speak of his strength, he is certainly strong; and if of his judgment, who shall cause us to meet?
20If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.
21 If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.
22¶ One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.
23If it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he who does this then, who is it and where is he?
25¶ Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.
26They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh {Heb. reed} as the eagle that throws himself on the prey.
27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself;
28I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless.
29 If I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean;
31yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together unto judgment.
33Neither is there any arbiter between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
34Let him take his tormentor away from me, and his terror will not perturb me.
35 Then I would speak and not fear him, because in this state I am not myself.
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