Job 9:25-35

25My days fly by faster than a runner; they flee without seeing any good.

26They sweep by like boats made of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

27If I said, “I will forget my complaint, change my expression, and smile,”

28I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know you will not acquit me.

29Since I will be found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

31then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!

32For he is not a man like me, that I can answer him, that we can take each other to court.

33There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand on both of us.

34Let him take his rod away from me so his terror will no longer frighten me.

35Then I would speak and not fear him. But that is not the case; I am on my own.