Job 9
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Job 9:16-23

16If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

17For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;

18he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

19If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

20Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

21I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

22It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'

23When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

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