Job 9 | BSB Bible Study

Job 9:1 (BSB)
Then Job answered:

Job 9:2 (BSB)
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 9:3 (BSB)
If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

Job 9:4 (BSB)
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

Job 9:5 (BSB)
He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

Job 9:6 (BSB)
He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

Job 9:7 (BSB)
He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

Job 9:8 (BSB)
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

Job 9:9 (BSB)
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

Job 9:10 (BSB)
He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

Job 9:11 (BSB)
Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.

Job 9:12 (BSB)
If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Job 9:13 (BSB)
God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

Job 9:14 (BSB)
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Job 9:15 (BSB)
For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Job 9:16 (BSB)
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

Job 9:17 (BSB)
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

Job 9:18 (BSB)
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Job 9:19 (BSB)
If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

Job 9:20 (BSB)
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

Job 9:21 (BSB)
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Job 9:22 (BSB)
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

Job 9:23 (BSB)
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Job 9:24 (BSB)
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Job 9:25 (BSB)
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Job 9:26 (BSB)
They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Job 9:27 (BSB)
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

Job 9:28 (BSB)
I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

Job 9:29 (BSB)
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Job 9:30 (BSB)
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 9:31 (BSB)
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Job 9:32 (BSB)
For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

Job 9:33 (BSB)
Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

Job 9:34 (BSB)
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

Job 9:35 (BSB)
Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.

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