Job 9

1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? ¹ ‡ Job 4:17Job 25:4Psa 143:2Rom 3:201Ki 8:46Job 14:3-4Job 32:2Job 33:9 +23 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. ‡ Job 10:2Job 40:21Jn 1:81Jn 3:20Isa 57:15-16Job 23:3-7Job 31:35-37Job 33:13 +64 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? ‡ Job 36:5Eph 3:20Rom 11:33Eph 3:10Exo 14:17-18Job 9:19Jud 1:24-25Pro 29:1 +165 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. ‡ Luk 21:11Mat 27:51Hab 3:10Rev 11:13Rev 16:18-201Co 13:2Hab 3:6Isa 40:12 +96 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. ‡ Hag 2:6Heb 12:26Psa 75:3Isa 2:21Job 26:11Job 38:4-7Isa 2:19Hag 2:21 +87 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. ‡ Isa 13:10Amo 8:9Luk 21:25-26Amo 4:13Dan 4:35Exo 10:21-22Ezk 32:7-8Job 37:7 +48 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. ² ‡ Isa 44:24Isa 40:22Psa 104:2-3Job 37:18Zec 12:1Jer 10:11Mat 14:25-30Psa 33:6 +79 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. ³ ‡ Amo 5:8Gen 1:16Job 38:31-41Psa 147:4Act 28:13Psa 104:13Job 37:9Psa 104:3 10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. ‡ Job 5:9Psa 72:18Eph 3:20Rom 11:33Dan 4:2-3Psa 136:4Ecc 3:11Isa 40:26-28 +411 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. ‡ Job 23:8-9Job 35:14Psa 77:191Ti 6:16 12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? ⁴ ‡ Isa 45:9Job 11:10Job 23:13Dan 4:35Job 34:29Rom 11:34Jer 18:6Job 33:13 +413 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. ⁵ ‡ Job 26:12Psa 89:10Isa 30:7Isa 51:9Jas 4:6-7Isa 31:2-3Job 40:9-11

14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? ‡ 1Ki 8:27Job 11:4-5Job 23:4Job 23:7Job 25:6Job 33:5Job 4:19Job 9:3 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. ‡ Job 10:15Job 8:51Pe 2:23Job 10:2Job 22:27Job 5:81Co 4:41Ki 8:38-39 +616 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. ‡ Act 12:14-16Exo 6:9Jdg 6:13Job 29:24Luk 24:41Psa 116:1-2Psa 126:1Psa 18:6 +117 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. ‡ Job 16:14Job 2:3Job 34:6Ezk 13:13Isa 28:17Jer 23:19Jhn 15:25Jhn 9:3 +1218 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. ‡ Job 7:19Lam 3:15Heb 12:11Job 27:2Job 3:20Lam 3:18-19Lam 3:3Psa 39:13 +219 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? ‡ Job 9:32-33Job 9:41Co 1:25Job 40:9-10Mat 6:13Psa 62:11Job 31:35Job 33:5-7 +220 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. ‡ Job 15:5-6Job 32:1-2Job 34:35Job 4:17Job 9:2Php 3:12-15Psa 130:3Psa 143:2 +1121 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. ‡ Job 1:1Psa 139:23-241Co 4:4Job 7:21Pro 28:261Jn 3:20Jer 17:9-10Job 7:15-16

22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. ‡ Ecc 9:1-3Ezk 21:3-4Job 10:8Luk 13:2-4 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. ‡ Job 24:122Sa 14:152Sa 14:17Ezk 14:19-21Ezk 21:13Heb 11:36-37Job 1:13-19Job 2:7 +324 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? ‡ Job 10:3Jer 12:1-2Psa 73:3-72Sa 15:30Job 21:7-152Sa 19:4Dan 4:17Dan 5:18-21 +11

25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ‡ Jas 4:14Job 7:6-7Psa 90:9-10Est 8:14Psa 39:11Psa 39:5Psa 89:47 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. ⁶ ‡ Hab 1:8Isa 18:22Sa 1:23Jer 4:13Job 39:27-30Lam 4:19Pro 23:5 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: ‡ Job 7:13Jer 8:18Job 7:11Psa 77:2-3 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. ‡ Psa 119:120Job 10:14Job 14:16Job 21:6Job 3:25Job 7:21Job 9:2Job 9:20-21 +329 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? ‡ Job 10:7Jer 2:35Job 10:14-17Job 10:2Job 21:16-17Job 21:27Job 22:5-30Job 9:22 +230 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; ‡ Jer 2:22Psa 26:61Jn 1:8Isa 1:16-18Jer 4:14Job 31:7Pro 28:13Rom 10:3 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. ⁷ ‡ Isa 59:6Isa 64:6Job 15:6Job 9:20Php 3:8-9 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. ‡ Rom 9:20Ecc 6:10Isa 45:9Num 23:19Psa 143:21Jn 3:201Sa 16:7Jer 49:19 +433 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. ^{8 9} ‡ 1Sa 2:251Jn 2:1-2Job 9:19Psa 106:231Ki 3:16-28 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: ‡ Psa 39:10Job 13:11Job 33:7Job 13:20-22Job 23:15Job 29:2-25Job 31:23Job 37:1 +135 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. ¹⁰