18:009:008 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. 18:009:009 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. 18:009:010 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. 18:009:011 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 18:009:012 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? 18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. 18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 18:009:015 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? 18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. 18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. 18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 18:009:024 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? 18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. 18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. 18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. 18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: 18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.