Job 9

Job 9:1 Then Job answered:

Job 9:2 Yes, I know what you’ve said is true, but how can a mortal settle his case before God?

Job 9:3 If someone wanted to take him to court, he could not answer God once in a thousand times.

Job 9:4 God’s heart is wise and his strength omnipotent. Who has stubbornly resisted him and come out intact?

Job 9:5 He removes mountains while they know nothing, overturning them in his anger.

Job 9:6 He shakes the land from its place and its pillars tremble.

Job 9:7 He commands the sun to dim and conceals the stars.

Job 9:8 He alone spreads out the sky and marches on the waves of the sea.

Job 9:9 He makes the stars: the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky.

Job 9:10 He does great and unsearchable things, miracles without number.

Job 9:11 Notice: If he passed by me, I wouldn’t see him; if he went by, I wouldn’t recognize him.

Job 9:12 Notice: If he snatches something, who can stop him? Who dares ask him, “What are you doing?”

Job 9:13 God does not hold back his anger; Rahab’s assistants cringe in fear beneath him!

Job 9:14 How then can I answer him or select my arguments against him?

Job 9:15 Even if I were in the right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Job 9:16 If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said.

Job 9:17 He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Job 9:18 He doesn’t let me catch my breath but fills me with bitter experiences.

Job 9:19 If it is a matter of strength, notice, he is the powerful one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

Job 9:20 Even if I were in the right, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

Job 9:21 Though I am blameless, I no longer care about my throat; I renounce my life.

Job 9:22 It is all the same. Therefore, I say, “He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”

Job 9:23 When catastrophe brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

Job 9:24 The land is handed over to the wicked; he blindfolds its judges. If it isn’t he, then who is it?

Job 9:25 My days fly by faster than a runner; they flee without seeing any good.

Job 9:26 They sweep by like boats made of paper, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Job 9:27 If I said, “I will forget my complaint, change my expression, and smile,”

Job 9:28 I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know you will not acquit me.

Job 9:29 Since I will be found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 9:31 then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my clothes hate me!

Job 9:32 Because he is not a man like me, that I can answer him, that we can take each other to court.

Job 9:33 There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand on both of us.

Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me so his terror will no longer frighten me.

Job 9:35 Then I would speak and not fear him. But that is not so with me.

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Jefferson Vann is pastor of Piney Grove Advent Christian Church in Delco, North Carolina. View all posts by Jefferson Vann