King James Version

Job 9

Job in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Job 9:1

Then Job answered and said,
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Open Job 9:2

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
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Open Job 9:3

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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Open Job 9:4

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
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Open Job 9:5

Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
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Open Job 9:6

Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
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Open Job 9:7

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
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Open Job 9:8

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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Open Job 9:9

Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
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Open Job 9:10

Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
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Open Job 9:11

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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Open Job 9:12

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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Open Job 9:13

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
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Open Job 9:14

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
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Open Job 9:15

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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Open Job 9:16

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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Open Job 9:17

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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Open Job 9:18

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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Open Job 9:19

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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Open Job 9:20

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Open Job 9:21

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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Open Job 9:22

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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Open Job 9:23

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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Open Job 9:24

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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Open Job 9:25

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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Open Job 9:26

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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Open Job 9:27

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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Open Job 9:28

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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Open Job 9:29

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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Open Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Open Job 9:31

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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Open Job 9:32

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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Open Job 9:33

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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Open Job 9:34

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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Open Job 9:35

Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

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