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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> so of a truth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">But how should man be just with God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If he will contend with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">He cannot answer him one of a thousand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">He is</span></span><span class="content"> wise in heart, and mighty in strength:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">Who hath hardened </span><span class="add"><span class="content">himself</span></span><span class="content"> against him, and hath prospered?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Which removeth the mountains, and they know not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">Which overturneth them in his anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Which shaketh the earth out of her place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">And the pillars thereof tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">And sealeth up the stars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Which alone spreadeth out the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">And the chambers of the south.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Which doeth great things past finding out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">Yea, and wonders without number.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Lo, he goeth by me, and I see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content"> not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">Who will say unto him, What doest thou?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> God will not withdraw his anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">The proud helpers do stoop under him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">How much less shall I answer him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> choose out my words </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to reason</span></span><span class="content"> with him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whom, though I were righteous, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content"> would I not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> I would make supplication to my judge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If I had called, and he had answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For he breaketh me with a tempest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">And multiplieth my wounds without cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He will not suffer me to take my breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">But filleth me with bitterness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I speak</span></span><span class="content"> of strength, lo, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">he is</span></span><span class="content"> strong:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">And if of judgment, who shall set me a time </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to plead?</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If I say</span></span><span class="content">, I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> perfect, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content"> would I not know my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">I would despise my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> one </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thing</span></span><span class="content">, therefore I said </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If the scourge slay suddenly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The earth is given into the hand of the wicked:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">He covereth the faces of the judges thereof;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">If not, where, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now my days are swifter than a post:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">They flee away, they see no good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They are passed away as the swift ships:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">As the eagle </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> hasteth to the prey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If I say, I will forget my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort </span><span class="add"><span class="content">myself:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I am afraid of all my sorrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I be wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">Why then labour I in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">If I wash myself with snow water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">And make my hands never so clean;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">And mine own clothes shall abhor me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">he is</span></span><span class="content"> not a man, as I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am, that</span></span><span class="content"> I should answer him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> we should come together in judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> might lay his hand upon us both.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Let him take his rod away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">And let not his fear terrify me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> would I speak, and not fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> not so with me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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