Job 9
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Job 9:16-23

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

17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

19If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’

20Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

21I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

22“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

23If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

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