The Book of Job
capítulo 9
verso 2
“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
verso 3
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
verso 4
God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
verso 5
He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
verso 6
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
verso 7
He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
verso 8
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
verso 9
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
verso 10
He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
verso 11
Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
verso 12
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
verso 13
“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
verso 14
How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
verso 15
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
verso 16
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
verso 17
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
verso 18
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
verso 19
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
verso 20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
verso 21
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
verso 22
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
verso 23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
verso 24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
verso 25
“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
verso 26
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
verso 27
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
verso 28
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
verso 29
I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
verso 30
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
verso 31
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
verso 32
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
verso 33
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
verso 34
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
verso 35
then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
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