009:002 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? 009:003 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand. 009:004 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? 009:005 He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger. 009:006 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. 009:007 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars. 009:008 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea. 009:009 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. 009:010 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number. 009:011 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him. 009:012 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?' 009:013 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. 009:014 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him? 009:015 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge. 009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice. 009:017 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause. 009:018 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. 009:019 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?' 009:020 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. 009:021 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life. 009:022 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. 009:023 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent. 009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it? 009:025 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, 009:026 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey. 009:027 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;' 009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. 009:029 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? 009:030 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, 009:031 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me. 009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment. 009:033 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand