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Job 9:1-10:22 — Job's Reply to Bildad

Job.9.1-10.22

¹Then Job answered and said: " ²Truly I know that it is so; but how can a man be righteous before God? ³If one wished to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand. ⁴He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against Him and prospered? ⁵He removes mountains, and they do not know it, when He overturns them in His anger. ⁶He shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars tremble. ⁷He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals up the stars. ⁸He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea. ⁹He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. ¹⁰He does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things without number. ¹¹Behold, He passes by me, and I do not see Him; He moves past, and I do not perceive Him. ¹²Behold, He snatches away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, 'What are You doing?' ¹³God will not turn back His anger; beneath Him the helpers of Rahab bow down. ¹⁴How much less could I answer Him, or choose my words to argue with Him? ¹⁵For even if I were righteous, I could not answer; I would have to plead for mercy from my Judge. ¹⁶If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice. ¹⁷For He crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause. ¹⁸He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. ¹⁹If it is a matter of strength, behold, He is mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me? ²⁰Even if I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me; if I am blameless, He will declare me perverse. ²¹I am blameless; I do not know myself; I despise my life. ²²It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the wicked.' ²³When a scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent. ²⁴The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it? ²⁵Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. ²⁶They sweep by like boats of reed, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. ²⁷If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and be cheerful,' ²⁸I dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not hold me innocent. ²⁹I myself am guilty ; why then should I toil for a mere breath? ³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹then You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me. ³²For He is not a man like me, that I could answer Him, that we could come together in judgment. ³³There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand upon us both. ³⁴Let Him remove His rod from me, and let His terror not frighten me; ³⁵then I would speak and not fear Him, for I am not so in myself.

Chapter 10

¹My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ²I will say to God: Do not condemn me; let me know why You contend with me. ³Is it good for You that You should oppress, that You should reject the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? ⁴Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees? ⁵Are Your days like the days of a man, or Your years like the days of a mortal, ⁶that You seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, ⁷although You know that I am not guilty, and there is no one who can deliver from Your hand? ⁸Your hands have shaped me and made me altogether, yet You would turn and destroy me. ⁹Remember, please, that You have made me like clay; and will You return me to dust? ¹⁰Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese? ¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. ¹²You have granted me life and steadfast love, and Your care has preserved my spirit. ¹³Yet these things You hid in Your heart; I know that this was Your purpose: ¹⁴If I sin, You watch me, and You will not acquit me of my iniquity. ¹⁵If I am guilty, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, being filled with disgrace and looking upon my affliction. ¹⁶If my head is held high, You hunt me like a lion, and again You show Yourself marvelous against me. ¹⁷You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me; hardships in waves and a host are against me. ¹⁸Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I should have perished, and no eye would have seen me. ¹⁹I should have been as though I had not existed; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. ²⁰Are not my days few? Cease then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer, ²¹before I go—and I shall not return—to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, ²²a land of deepest gloom like thick darkness, of the shadow of death and without order, where the light shines like thick darkness."

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4/11/2026

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