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

Job 9:28-35

28 I'm still afraid of all my suffering; I know that you won't declare me innocent.

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

29 I myself am thought guilty; why have I tried so hard in vain?

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

30 If I wash myself with snow, purify my hands with soap,

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

31 then you'll hurl me into a slimy pit so that my clothes detest me.

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

32 God is not a man like me—someone I could answer— so that we could come together in court.

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

33 Oh, that there were a mediator between us; he would lay his hand on both of us,

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

34 remove his rod from me, so his fury wouldn't 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—unafraid— for I'm not that way.

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