Job 9:25-35 (New International Version)
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"My days are swifter than a runner;1 they fly away without a glimpse of joy.2
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They skim past3 like boats of papyrus,4 like eagles swooping down on their prey.5
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If I say, 'I will forget my complaint,6 I will change my expression, and smile,'
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I still dread7 all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.8
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Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?9
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Even if I washed myself with soapa10 and my hands11 with washing soda,12
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you would plunge me into a slime pit13 so that even my clothes would detest me.14
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"He is not a man15 like me that I might answer him,16 that we might confront each other in court.17
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If only there were someone to arbitrate between us,18 to lay his hand upon us both,19
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someone to remove God's rod from me,20 so that his terror would frighten me no more.21
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Then I would speak up without fear of him,22 but as it now stands with me, I cannot.23
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