Job 9
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then Iob answered, and sayd,
2 “I truly know that this is so. But how can a person be in the right with God?
I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?
3 If he wants to argue with God, he cannot answer him once in a thousand times.
If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand.
4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has ever hardened himself against him and succeeded?—
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered?
5 he who removes the mountains without warning anyone when he overturns them in his anger—
He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.
6 he who shakes the earth out of its place and sets its supports trembling.
Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake.
7 It is the same God who tells the sun not to rise, and it does not, and who covers up the stars,
He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.
8 who by himself stretches out the heavens and tramples down the waves of the sea,
Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea.
9 who makes the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the constellations of the south.
He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.
10 He does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things that cannot be counted.
He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.
11 See, he goes by me, and I do not see him; he passes on also, but I do not perceive him.
Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not.
12 If he takes something away, who can stop him? Who can say to him, 'What are you doing?'
Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?
13 God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab bow beneath him.
God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him.
14 How much less could I answer him, could I choose words to reason with him?
Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?
15 Even if I were righteous, I could not answer him; I could only plead for mercy with my judge.
For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.
16 Even if I called and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.
17 For he breaks me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.
For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause.
18 He does not allow me to regain my breath; but he fills me with bitterness.
He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
20 Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; and though I am blameless, my words would prove me to be guilty.
If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.
21 I am blameless, but I do not care any more about myself; I despise my own life.
Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
22 It makes no difference, which is why I say that he destroys blameless people and wicked people together.
This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
23 When a whip suddenly kills, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?
24 The earth is given into the hand of wicked people; God covers the faces of its judges. If it is not he who does it, then who is it?
The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?
25 My days are swifter than a running messenger; my days flee away; they see no good anywhere.
My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.
26 They are as fast as papyrus reed boats, and as fast as the eagle that swoops down on its victim.
They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.
27 If I said that I would forget about my complaints, that I would take off my sad face and be happy,
If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,
28 I would be afraid of all my sorrows because I know that you will not consider me innocent.
Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.
29 I will be condemned; why, then, should I try in vain?
If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?
30 If I washed myself with snow water and made my hands ever so clean,
If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,
31 God would plunge me in a ditch, and my own clothes would be disgusted with me.
Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.
32 For God is not a man, as I am, that I could answer him, that we could come together in court.
For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.
33 There is no judge between us who might lay his hand upon us both.
Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.
34 There is no other judge who could take God's rod off me, who could keep his terror from frightening me.
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:
35 Then would I speak up and not fear him. But as things are now, I cannot do that.
Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.
