Job 9:16-23

16And even if I summoned him and he responded, I’m not sure he would listen to me.

17For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.

18He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows.

19If it’s a question of strength, he’s the strong one. If it’s a matter of justice, who dares to summon him to court?

20Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.

21“I am innocent, but it makes no difference to me— I despise my life.

22Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God. That’s why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

23When a plague sweeps through, he laughs at the death of the innocent.