Job 9
1Then Job answered,
but how can man be just with God?
he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
when he overturns them in his anger.
Its pillars tremble.
and seals up the stars.
and treads on the waves of the sea.
and the rooms of the south.
yes, marvelous things without number.
He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
Who can hinder him?
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
And choose my words to argue with him?
I would make supplication to my judge.
yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
and multiplies my wounds without cause.
but fills me with bitterness.
If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
I don’t respect myself.
I despise my life.
Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
He covers the faces of its judges.
If not he, then who is it?
They flee away. They see no good.
as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
I know that you will not hold me innocent.
Why then do I labor in vain?
and cleanse my hands with lye,
My own clothes will abhor me.
that we should come together in judgment.
that might lay his hand on us both.
Let his terror not make me afraid;
for I am not so in myself.