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Job 9

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.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 et respondens Iob ait

2 vere scio quod ita sit et quod non iustificetur homo conpositus Deo

3 si voluerit contendere cum eo non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille

4 sapiens corde est et fortis robore quis restitit ei et pacem habuit

5 qui transtulit montes et nescierunt hii quos subvertit in furore suo

6 qui commovet terram de loco suo et columnae eius concutiuntur

7 qui praecipit soli et non oritur et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo

8 qui extendit caelos solus et graditur super fluctus maris

9 qui facit Arcturum et Oriona et Hyadas et interiora austri

10 qui facit magna et inconprehensibilia et mirabilia quorum non est numerus

11 si venerit ad me non videbo si abierit non intellegam eum

12 si repente interroget quis respondebit ei vel quis dicere potest cur facis

13 Deus cuius resistere irae nemo potest et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem

14 quantus ergo sum ego qui respondeam ei et loquar verbis meis cum eo

15 qui etiam si habuero quippiam iustum non respondebo sed meum iudicem deprecabor

16 et cum invocantem exaudierit me non credo quod audierit vocem meam

17 in turbine enim conteret me et multiplicabit vulnera mea etiam sine causa

18 non concedit requiescere spiritum meum et implet me amaritudinibus

19 si fortitudo quaeritur robustissimus est si aequitas iudicii nemo pro me audet testimonium dicere

20 si iustificare me voluero os meum condemnabit me si innocentem ostendere pravum me conprobabit

21 etiam si simplex fuero hoc ipsum ignorabit anima mea et taedebit me vitae meae

22 unum est quod locutus sum et innocentem et impium ipse consumit

23 si flagellat occidat semel et non de poenis innocentum rideat

24 terra data est in manu impii vultum iudicum eius operit quod si non ille est quis ergo est

25 dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore fugerunt et non viderunt bonum

26 pertransierunt quasi naves poma portantes sicut aquila volans ad escam

27 cum dixero nequaquam ita loquar commuto faciem meam et dolore torqueor

28 verebar omnia opera mea sciens quod non parceres delinquenti

29 si autem et sic impius sum quare frustra laboravi

30 si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis et fulserint velut mundissimae manus meae

31 tamen sordibus intingues me et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea

32 neque enim viro qui similis mei est respondebo nec qui mecum in iudicio ex aequo possit audiri

33 non est qui utrumque valeat arguere et ponere manum suam in ambobus

34 auferat a me virgam suam et pavor eius non me terreat

35 loquar et non timebo eum neque enim possum metuens respondere