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

Job 9:28-35

28 Then I'd still be afraid I'd go on suffering. That's because I know you would say I had done something wrong.

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

29 In fact, you have already said I'm guilty. So why should I struggle without any reason?

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

30 Suppose I clean myself with soap. Suppose I wash my hands with cleanser.

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

31 Even then you would throw me into a muddy pit. And even my clothes would hate me.

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

32 "God isn't a man like me. I can't answer him. We can't 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 I wish someone would settle matters between us. I wish someone would force us to work things out.

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

34 I wish someone would keep God from punishing me. Then his terror wouldn't frighten me anymore.

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

35 I would speak up without being afraid of him. But as things stand now, I can't do that.

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