And Job answered and said,
2Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God?
3If he will argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.
4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;
5He who removes the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturns them in His anger;
6He who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble;
7the one speaking to the sun, and it does not rise; and seals up the stars;
8who alone stretches out the heavens, and walks on the waves of the sea;
9who made the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
10who is doing great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number?
11Behold! He goes by me, and I do not see Him; He passes on also, but I do not perceive Him.
12Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?
13God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of pride stoop under Him.
14How much less shall I answer Him, and choose my arguments with Him?
15Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I seek mercy for my judgment.
16If I had called and He had answered me, yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice;
17He who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
18who will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty! And if of judgment, who shall set me a time?
20If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse.
21Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul. I would despise my life.
22It is One, therefore I said, He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.
23If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity 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 have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.
27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will depart from my heaviness and be of good cheer,
28I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent.
29I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
31yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.
32For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment;
33there is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
34Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His fear make me afraid;
35then would I speak and not fear Him; for it is not so with me.