Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said,
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job 9:5 (show verse)
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Job 9:6 (show verse)
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job 9:7 (show verse)
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Job 9:8 (show verse)
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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Job 9:9 (show verse)
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Job 9:10 (show verse)
Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Job 9:14 (show verse)
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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Job 9:16 (show verse)
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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Job 9:17 (show verse)
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18 (show verse)
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
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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Job 9:20 (show verse)
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24 (show verse)
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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Job 9:25 (show verse)
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the 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 say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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Job 9:29 (show verse)
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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Job 9:30 (show verse)
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 9:31 (show verse)
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 9:32 (show verse)
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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Job 9:33 (show verse)
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34 (show verse)
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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