Job 9:25-35

25“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away without seeing goodness.

26They slip by like reed boats, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and be cheerful,’

28I still dread all my pains, for I know You will not find me innocent.

29If I am condemned— why should I struggle in vain?

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

31then You would plunge me into a pit and my own clothes would detest me.

32For He is not a human being, like I am, that I could answer Him, that we could go to court together.

33There is no arbitrator between us, who could lay his hand on us both;

34who could remove His rod from me, so that His terror would not frighten me.

35Then I would speak and not fear Him —except it is not so with me.”