Job 9 (NET)

Job 9:1¹Then Job answered:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:2²“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:3³If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:4⁴He is wise in heart and mighty in strength — who has resisted him and remained safe?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:5⁵He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:6⁶he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:7⁷he who commands the sun, and it does not shine and seals up the stars,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:8⁸he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:9⁹He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:10¹⁰he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:11¹¹If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:12¹²If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:13¹³God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:14¹⁴“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:15¹⁵Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:16¹⁶If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:17¹⁷he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:18¹⁸He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:19¹⁹If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:20²⁰Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me, although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:21²¹I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:22²²“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:23²³If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:24²⁴If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:25²⁵“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:26²⁶They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:27²⁷If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:28²⁸I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:29²⁹If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:30³⁰If I wash myself with snow-melt water, and make my hands clean with lye,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:31³¹then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:32³²For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:33³³Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:34³⁴who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 9:35³⁵Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions