<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013324">Job</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013515">Chapter 9</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1013492">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1013551">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Job's Response</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013516">1</a>. THEN Job answered and said,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013517">2</a>. I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013518">3</a>. If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013519">4</a>. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013520">5</a>. Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013521">6</a>. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013522">7</a>. Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013523">8</a>. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013524">9</a>. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013525">10</a>. Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013526">11</a>. Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013527">12</a>. Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?  who will say unto him, What doest thou?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013528">13</a>. If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013529">14</a>. How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013530">15</a>. Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013531">16</a>. If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013532">17</a>. For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013533">18</a>. He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013534">19</a>. If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013535">20</a>. If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013536">21</a>. Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013537">22</a>. This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013538">23</a>. If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013539">24</a>. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof, if not, where, and who is he?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013540">25</a>. Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013541">26</a>. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013542">27</a>. If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013543">28</a>. I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013544">29</a>. If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013545">30</a>. If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013546">31</a>. Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013547">32</a>. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013548">33</a>. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013549">34</a>. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1013550">35</a>. Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.</li>
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