Job 9

1Then Job answered,

2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?Cross-references: 1Ki 8:46 · Job 4:17 · Job 14:3 · Job 25:4 · Job 32:2 · Job 33:9 · +4 more

3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.Cross-references: Job 9:20 · Job 9:32 · Job 10:2 · Job 23:3 · Job 31:35 · Job 33:13 · +8 more

4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?Cross-references: Ex 9:14 · Ex 14:17 · 2Chr 13:12 · Job 6:10 · Job 9:19 · Job 11:6 · +18 more

5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.Cross-references: Num 1:5 · Job 28:9 · Ps 46:2 · Ps 68:8 · Ps 114:6 · Isa 40:12 · +11 more

6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:8 · Job 26:11 · Job 38:4 · Ps 75:3 · Ps 114:7 · Isa 2:19 · +10 more

7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.Cross-references: Ex 10:21 · Josh 10:12 · Job 37:7 · Job 38:12 · Job 38:19 · Isa 13:10 · +6 more

8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.Cross-references: Gen 1:6 · Job 37:18 · Job 38:11 · Job 38:16 · Ps 33:6 · Ps 77:19 · +9 more

9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.Cross-references: Gen 1:16 · Job 37:9 · Job 38:31 · Ps 104:3 · Ps 104:13 · Ps 147:4 · +2 more

10He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · Job 5:9 · Job 26:12 · Job 37:23 · Ps 71:15 · Ps 72:18 · +6 more

11Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.Cross-references: Job 23:8 · Job 35:14 · Ps 77:19 · 1Tim 6:16

12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’Cross-references: Job 11:10 · Job 23:13 · Job 33:13 · Job 34:29 · Isa 45:9 · Jer 18:6 · +6 more

13“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.Cross-references: Job 26:12 · Job 40:9 · Ps 89:10 · Isa 30:7 · Isa 31:2 · Isa 51:9 · +1 more

14How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?Cross-references: 1Ki 8:27 · Job 4:19 · Job 9:3 · Job 11:4 · Job 23:4 · Job 23:7 · +2 more

15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:38 · 2Chr 33:13 · Job 5:8 · Job 8:5 · Job 10:2 · Job 10:15 · +8 more

16If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.Cross-references: Ex 6:9 · Judg 6:13 · Job 29:24 · Ps 18:6 · Ps 66:18 · Ps 116:1 · +3 more

17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.Cross-references: Job 1:14 · Job 2:3 · Job 2:7 · Job 2:13 · Job 16:12 · Job 16:14 · +14 more

18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.Cross-references: Job 3:20 · Job 7:19 · Job 27:2 · Ps 39:13 · Ps 88:7 · Ps 88:15 · +4 more

19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’Cross-references: Job 9:4 · Job 9:32 · Job 31:35 · Job 33:5 · Job 36:17 · Job 40:9 · +4 more

20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.Cross-references: Job 1:1 · Job 4:17 · Job 9:2 · Job 15:5 · Job 32:1 · Job 33:8 · +13 more

21I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.Cross-references: Job 1:1 · Job 7:15 · Job 7:21 · Ps 139:23 · Prov 28:26 · Jer 17:9 · +2 more

22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.Cross-references: Job 10:8 · Eccl 9:1 · Ezek 21:3 · Luke 13:2

23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.Cross-references: 2Sam 14:15 · 2Sam 14:17 · Job 1:13 · Job 2:7 · Job 4:7 · Job 8:20 · +5 more

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?Cross-references: 2Sam 15:30 · 2Sam 19:4 · Esth 6:12 · Esth 7:8 · Job 10:3 · Job 12:6 · +13 more

25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.Cross-references: Esth 8:14 · Job 7:6 · Ps 39:5 · Ps 39:11 · Ps 89:47 · Ps 90:9 · +1 more

26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.Cross-references: 2Sam 1:23 · Job 39:27 · Prov 23:5 · Isa 18:2 · Jer 4:13 · Lam 4:19 · +1 more

27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’Cross-references: Job 7:11 · Job 7:13 · Ps 77:2 · Jer 8:18

28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.Cross-references: Ex 20:7 · Job 3:25 · Job 7:21 · Job 9:2 · Job 9:20 · Job 10:14 · +5 more

29I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?Cross-references: Job 9:22 · Job 10:2 · Job 10:7 · Job 10:14 · Job 21:16 · Job 21:27 · +4 more

30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,Cross-references: Job 31:7 · Ps 26:6 · Prov 28:13 · Isa 1:16 · Jer 2:22 · Jer 4:14 · +2 more

31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.Cross-references: Job 9:20 · Job 15:6 · Isa 59:6 · Isa 64:6 · Phil 3:8

32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · 1Sam 16:7 · Job 13:18 · Job 23:3 · Job 33:12 · Job 35:5 · +6 more

33There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:25 · 1Ki 3:16 · Job 9:19 · Ps 106:23 · 1John 2:1

34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;Cross-references: Job 13:11 · Job 13:20 · Job 23:15 · Job 29:2 · Job 31:23 · Job 33:7 · +3 more

35then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.