1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)
Job 9
1 Job, acknowledging God's justice, sheweth there is no contending with him. 22 Man's innocency is not to be condemned by afflictions.

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Then responded Job, and said

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Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?

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If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand:

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Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!

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Who removeth mountains, unawares, Who overturneth them in his anger;

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Who shaketh the earth, out of its place, and, the pillars thereof, shudder;

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Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;

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Who spreadeth out fire heavens, by himself alone! and marcheth along, on the heights of the sea;

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Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south;

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Who doeth great things, past finding out, and marvels, beyond number.

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Lo! he cometh upon me, yet can I not see him, Yea he passeth on, yet can I not discern him.

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Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?

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As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselvesthe proud helpers.

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How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?

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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication.

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Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.

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For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

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He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.

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If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?

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If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

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I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!

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One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end.

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If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.

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The earth, hath been given into the hand of a lawless one, The faces of her judges, he covereth, If not, then who is it?

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My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.

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They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture [which] rusheth upon food.

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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will lay aside my sad countenance, and brighten up,

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I am afraid of all my pains, I know, that thou wilt not pronounce me innocent.

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I, shall be held guilty,Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?

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Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,

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Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:

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For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

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There is not, between us, a mediator, who might lay his hand upon us both.

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Let him take from off me his rod, and, his terror, let it not startle me:

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I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself!