Parallel Bible results for "Job 9:28-35"

Job 9:28-35

28 I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know You will not acquit me.

28 I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

29 Since I will be found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

29 Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

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

30 Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder,

31 then You dip me in a pit [of mud], and my own clothes despise me!

31 you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.

32 For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

32 “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.

33 There is no one to judge between us, to lay his hand on both of us.

33 If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together,

34 Let Him take His rod away from me so His terror will no longer frighten me.

34 someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.

35 Then I would speak and not fear Him. But that is not the case; I am on my own.

35 Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.