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Job 9:24-34

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

24 When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

25 “My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.

26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

26 They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,’

28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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

29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

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

30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

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

31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor 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, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

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

33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

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

34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

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

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