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Chapter 9  
     
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 Then Job answered and said,
  
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 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
  
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 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
  
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 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?
  
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 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
  
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 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars of it tremble.
  
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 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
  
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 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
  
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 Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
  
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 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
  
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 Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
  
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 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
  
13.
 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
  
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 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
  
15.
 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
  
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 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
  
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 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
  
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 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
  
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 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
  
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 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
  
21.
 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
  
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 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
  
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 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
  
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 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?
  
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 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
  

 
 
 

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