Then Job <H0347> answered <H6030> and said, <H0559>
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I know <H3045> [it is] so of a truth: <H0551> but how should man <H0582> be just <H6663> with God? <H0410>
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If he will <H2654> contend <H7378> with him, he cannot answer <H6030> him one <H0259> of a thousand. <H0505>
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[He is] wise <H2450> in heart, <H3824> and mighty <H0533> in strength: <H3581> who hath hardened <H7185> [himself] against him, and hath prospered? <H7999>
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Which removeth <H6275> the mountains, <H2022> and they know <H3045> not: which overturneth <H2015> them in his anger. <H0639>
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Which shaketh <H7264> the earth <H0776> out of her place, <H4725> and the pillars <H5982> thereof tremble. <H6426>
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Which commandeth <H0559> the sun, <H2775> and it riseth <H2224> not; and sealeth up <H2856> the stars. <H3556>
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Which alone spreadeth out <H5186> the heavens, <H8064> and treadeth <H1869> upon the waves <H1116> of the sea. <H3220>
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Which maketh <H6213> Arcturus, <H5906> Orion, <H3685> and Pleiades, <H3598> and the chambers <H2315> of the south. <H8486>
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Which doeth <H6213> great <H1419> things past <H0369> finding out; <H2714> yea, and wonders <H6381> without number. <H4557>
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Lo, he goeth <H5674> by me, and I see <H7200> [him] not: he passeth on <H2498> also, but I perceive <H0995> him not.
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Behold, he taketh away, <H2862> who can hinder <H7725> him? who will say <H0559> unto him, What doest <H6213> thou?
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[If] God <H0433> will not withdraw <H7725> his anger, <H0639> the proud <H7293> helpers <H5826> do stoop <H7817> under him.
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How much less shall I answer <H6030> him, [and] choose <H0977> out my words <H1697> [to reason] with him?
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Whom, though I were righteous, <H6663> [yet] would I not answer, <H6030> [but] I would make supplication <H2603> to my judge. <H8199>
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If I had called, <H7121> and he had answered <H6030> me; [yet] would I not believe <H0539> that he had hearkened <H0238> unto my voice. <H6963>
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For he breaketh <H7779> me with a tempest, <H8183> and multiplieth <H7235> my wounds <H6482> without cause. <H2600>
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He will not suffer <H5414> me to take <H7725> my breath, <H7307> but filleth <H7646> me with bitterness. <H4472>
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If [I speak] of strength, <H3581> lo, [he is] strong: <H0533> and if of judgment, <H4941> who shall set me a time <H3259> [to plead]?
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If I justify <H6663> myself, mine own mouth <H6310> shall condemn <H7561> me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, <H8535> it shall also prove me perverse. <H6140>
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[Though] I [were] perfect, <H8535> [yet] would I not know <H3045> my soul: <H5315> I would despise <H3988> my life. <H2416>
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This [is] one <H0259> [thing], therefore I said <H0559> [it], He destroyeth <H3615> the perfect <H8535> and the wicked. <H7563>
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If the scourge <H7752> slay <H4191> suddenly, <H6597> he will laugh <H3932> at the trial <H4531> of the innocent. <H5355>
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The earth <H0776> is given <H5414> into the hand <H3027> of the wicked: <H7563> he covereth <H3680> the faces <H6440> of the judges <H8199> thereof; if not, where, <H0645> [and] who [is] he?
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Now my days <H3117> are swifter <H7043> than a post: <H7323> they flee away, <H1272> they see <H7200> no good. <H2896>
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They are passed away <H2498> as <H5973> the swift <H0016> ships: <H0591> as the eagle <H5404> [that] hasteth <H2907> to the prey. <H0400>
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If I say, <H0559> I will forget <H7911> my complaint, <H7879> I will leave off <H5800> my heaviness, <H6440> and comfort <H1082> [myself]:
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I am afraid <H3025> of all my sorrows, <H6094> I know <H3045> that thou wilt not hold me innocent. <H5352>
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[If] I be wicked, <H7561> why then labour <H3021> I in vain? <H1892>
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If I wash <H7364> myself with <H1119> snow <H7950> water, <H4325> <H1119> and make my hands <H3709> never <H1253> so clean; <H2141>
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Yet <H0227> shalt thou plunge <H2881> me in the ditch, <H7845> and mine own clothes <H8008> shall abhor <H8581> me.
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For [he is] not a man, <H0376> as I [am, that] I should answer <H6030> him, [and] we should come <H0935> together <H3162> in judgment. <H4941>
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Neither is <H3426> there any daysman <H3198> betwixt us, [that] might lay <H7896> his hand <H3027> upon us both. <H8147>
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Let him take his rod <H7626> away <H5493> from me, and let not his fear <H0367> terrify <H1204> me:
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[Then] would I speak, <H1696> and not fear <H3372> him; but [it is] not so with me.