Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
This was Job's response:
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
He is wise in heart and strong in will who can be stubborn against him and succeed?
Job 9:5 (show verse)
"He removes mountains without their knowledge, overthrowing them in his anger.
Job 9:6 (show verse)
He shakes the earth from its orbit, so that its foundations shudder.
Job 9:7 (show verse)
He commands the sun so that it doesn't shine and seals up the stars.
Job 9:8 (show verse)
He alone spreads out the heavens, he walks on the waves of the sea.
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Job 9:9 (show verse)
He created Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the southern constellations.
Job 9:10 (show verse)
He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
"If he were to pass near me, I wouldn't notice; if he moves by, I wouldn't perceive him.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
Indeed, if he snatches someone away, who could restrain him? Who can say to him, "What are you doing?'
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
"God doesn't restrain his anger. Rahab's assistants are humiliated under him.
Job 9:14 (show verse)
So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Even if I'm in the right, I cannot answer him. I can only appeal for mercy.
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Job 9:16 (show verse)
"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.
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Job 9:17 (show verse)
For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.
Job 9:18 (show verse)
He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
"Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger! Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him?
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Job 9:20 (show verse)
Though I'm in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I'm blameless, he'll pronounce me as guilty.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
"I'm blameless; I don't know myself; I despise my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
I say it's all the same he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.
Job 9:24 (show verse)
A land is given into the hands of a wicked person; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not God, then who is it?"
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Job 9:25 (show verse)
"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Eagles, a type of swiftness
Eagle » The swift flight of
Eagles » A bird of prey
Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
Ships » Described as » Swift
Eagle » The swift flight of
Eagles » A bird of prey
Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
Ships » Described as » Swift
Job 9:27 (show verse)
If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
then I still dread all of my suffering; I know you still won't acquit me.
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Job 9:29 (show verse)
I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility?
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Job 9:30 (show verse)
"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 9:31 (show verse)
you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me.
Job 9:32 (show verse)
He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.
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Job 9:33 (show verse)
There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,
Job 9:34 (show verse)
removing his rod from me, and not letting terror of him overwhelm me.
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."
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