Job 9

Geneva^{(i) 1} Then Iob answered, and sayd, ² I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified? ³ If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand. ⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered? ⁵ He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath. ⁶ Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake. ⁷ He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet. ⁸ Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea. ⁹ He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South. ¹⁰ He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber. ¹¹ Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not. ¹² Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou? ¹³ God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him. ¹⁴ Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him? ¹⁵ For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge. ¹⁶ If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce. ¹⁷ For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause. ¹⁸ He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse. ¹⁹ If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade? ²⁰ If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked. ²¹ Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life. ²² This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked. ²³ If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent? ²⁴ The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he? ²⁵ My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing. ²⁶ They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray. ²⁷ If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee, ²⁸ Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent. ²⁹ If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine? ³⁰ If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane, ³¹ Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie. ³² For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement. ³³ Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both. ³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me: ³⁵ Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.