Job 9:25-35 - My Life Is Speeding By

²⁵ "My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good. ²⁶ They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. ²⁷ If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful, ²⁸ then I still dread all of my suffering; I know you still won't acquit me. ²⁹ I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility? ³⁰ "If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹ you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me.

³² He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another. ³³ There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us, ³⁴ removing his rod from me, and not letting terror of him overwhelm me. ³⁵ Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."