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Job 9

Hebrew Names Version HNV

1 Then Iyov answered,

2 "Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?

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

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

5 Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger

6 Who shakes the eretz out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;

7 Who commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, And seals up the stars;

8 Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea;

9 Who makes Ayish, Kesil, and the Kima, And the chambers of the south;

10 Who does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number.

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

12 Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

13 "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rachav stoop under him.

14 How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?

15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

16 If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice.

17 For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.

18 He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.

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

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

21 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

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

24 The eretz is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it?

25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

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

27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

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

29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

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

31 Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

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

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

34 Let him take his rod away from me, Let his terror not make me afraid:

35 Then I would speak, and not fear him, For I am not so in myself.

The Message Bible MSG

1 Job continued by saying:

2 "So what's new? I know all this. The question is, 'How can mere mortals get right with God?'

3 If we wanted to bring our case before him, what chance would we have? Not one in a thousand!

4 God's wisdom is so deep, God's power so immense, who could take him on and come out in one piece?

5 He moves mountains before they know what's happened, flips them on their heads on a whim.

6 He gives the earth a good shaking up, rocks it down to its very foundations.

7 He tells the sun, 'Don't shine,' and it doesn't; he pulls the blinds on the stars.

8 All by himself he stretches out the heavens and strides on the waves of the sea.

9 He designed the Big Dipper and Orion, the Pleiades and Alpha Centauri.

10 We'll never comprehend all the great things he does; his miracle-surprises can't be counted.

11 Somehow, though he moves right in front of me, I don't see him; quietly but surely he's active, and I miss it.

12 If he steals you blind, who can stop him? Who's going to say, 'Hey, what are you doing?'

13 God doesn't hold back on his anger; even dragon-bred monsters cringe before him.

14 "So how could I ever argue with him, construct a defense that would influence God?

15 Even though I'm innocent I could never prove it; I can only throw myself on the Judge's mercy.

16 If I called on God and he himself answered me, then, and only then, would I believe that he'd heard me.

17 As it is, he knocks me about from pillar to post, beating me up, black and blue, for no good reason.

18 He won't even let me catch my breath, piles bitterness upon bitterness.

19 If it's a question of who's stronger, he wins, hands down! If it's a question of justice, who'll serve him the subpoena?

20 Even though innocent, anything I say incriminates me; blameless as I am, my defense just makes me sound worse. If God's Not Responsible, Who Is?

21 "Believe me, I'm blameless. I don't understand what's going on. I hate my life!

22 Since either way it ends up the same, I can only conclude that God destroys the good right along with the bad.

23 When calamity hits and brings sudden death, he folds his arms, aloof from the despair of the innocent.

24 He lets the wicked take over running the world, he installs judges who can't tell right from wrong. If he's not responsible, who is?

25 "My time is short - what's left of my life races off too fast for me to even glimpse the good.

26 My life is going fast, like a ship under full sail, like an eagle plummeting to its prey.

27 Even if I say, 'I'll put all this behind me, I'll look on the bright side and force a smile,'

28 All these troubles would still be like grit in my gut since it's clear you're not going to let up.

29 The verdict has already been handed down - 'Guilty!' - so what's the use of protests or appeals?

30 Even if I scrub myself all over and wash myself with the strongest soap I can find,

31 It wouldn't last - you'd push me into a pigpen, or worse, so nobody could stand me for the stink.

32 "God and I are not equals; I can't bring a case against him. We'll never enter a courtroom as peers.

33 How I wish we had an arbitrator to step in and let me get on with life -

34 To break God's death grip on me, to free me from this terror so I could breathe again.

35 Then I'd speak up and state my case boldly. As things stand, there is no way I can do it.