1And 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. 4[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened [himself] against Him and been blessed; 5[He] who removes the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturns them in His anger; 6[He] 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; 17[He] who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause; 18[who] 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. 21[Though] 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; 35[then] would I speak and not fear Him; for [it is] not so with me.