The Book of Job

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versetul 1

Then Job answered,


versetul 2

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?


versetul 3

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.


versetul 4

God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?


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He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.


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He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.


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He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.


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He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.


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He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.


versetul 10

He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.


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Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.


versetul 12

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’


versetul 13

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.


versetul 14

How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?


versetul 15

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.


versetul 16

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.


versetul 17

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.


versetul 18

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.


versetul 19

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’


versetul 20

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.


versetul 21

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.


versetul 22

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.


versetul 23

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.


versetul 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?


versetul 25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.


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They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.


versetul 27

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’


versetul 28

I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.


versetul 29

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?


versetul 30

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,


versetul 31

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.


versetul 32

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.


versetul 33

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.


versetul 34

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;


versetul 35

then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

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