Job 9 | WEB Bible Study

Job 9:1 (WEB)
Then Job answered,

Job 9:2 (WEB)
"Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

Job 9:3 (WEB)
If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.

Job 9:4 (WEB)
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

Job 9:5 (WEB)
Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger

Job 9:6 (WEB)
Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;

Job 9:7 (WEB)
Who commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, And seals up the stars;

Job 9:8 (WEB)
Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea;

Job 9:9 (WEB)
Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

Job 9:10 (WEB)
Who does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number.

Job 9:11 (WEB)
Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

Job 9:12 (WEB)
Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 9:13 (WEB)
"God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

Job 9:14 (WEB)
How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?

Job 9:15 (WEB)
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

Job 9:16 (WEB)
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice.

Job 9:17 (WEB)
For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.

Job 9:18 (WEB)
He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.

Job 9:19 (WEB)
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

Job 9:20 (WEB)
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

Job 9:21 (WEB)
I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

Job 9:22 (WEB)
"It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Job 9:23 (WEB)
If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 9:24 (WEB)
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it?

Job 9:25 (WEB)
"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

Job 9:26 (WEB)
They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Job 9:27 (WEB)
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

Job 9:28 (WEB)
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Job 9:29 (WEB)
I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

Job 9:30 (WEB)
If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 9:31 (WEB)
Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

Job 9:32 (WEB)
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

Job 9:33 (WEB)
There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both.

Job 9:34 (WEB)
Let him take his rod away from me, Let his terror not make me afraid:

Job 9:35 (WEB)
Then I would speak, and not fear him, For I am not so in myself.

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