Job 9:16-35

16If I had called, and he had answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice. 17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18He will not allow me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead ? 20If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also shall prove me perverse. 21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

22This isonething, therefore I saidit, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of its judges; if not, where, and who is he?

25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.1 27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my heaviness, and comfort myself : 28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29If I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain? 30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.2 32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. 33Neither is there any mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.34 34Let him take away his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me: 35Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.5