Job - Chapter 9 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Yes, I've heard all that before. But how can a human being win a case against God?
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 9:1)}
  • 3. How can anyone argue with him? He can ask a thousand questions that no one could ever answer.
  • 4. God is so wise and powerful; no one can stand up against him.
  • 5. Without warning he moves mountains and in anger he destroys them.
  • 6. God sends earthquakes and shakes the ground; he rocks the pillars that support the earth.
  • 7. He can keep the sun from rising, and the stars from shining at night.
  • 8. No one helped God spread out the heavens or trample the sea monster's back.
  • 9. God hung the stars in the sky---the Dipper, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south.
  • 10. We cannot understand the great things he does, and to his miracles there is no end.
  • 11. God passes by, but I cannot see him.
  • 12. He takes what he wants, and no one can stop him; no one dares ask him, "What are you doing?"
  • 13. God's anger is constant. He crushed his enemies who helped Rahab, the sea monster, oppose him.
  • 14. So how can I find words to answer God?
  • 15. Though I am innocent, all I can do is beg for mercy from God my judge.
  • 16. Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me.
  • 17. He sends storms to batter and bruise me without any reason at all.
  • 18. He won't let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness.
  • 19. Should I try force? Try force on God? Should I take him to court? Could anyone make him go?
  • 20. I am innocent and faithful, but my words sound guilty, and everything I say seems to condemn me.
  • 21. I am innocent, but I no longer care. I am sick of living. Nothing matters; innocent or guilty, God will destroy us.
  • 22. {cf15I (SEE 9:21)}
  • 23. When an innocent person suddenly dies, God laughs.
  • 24. God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind. And if God didn't do it, who did?
  • 25. My days race by, not one of them good.
  • 26. My life passes like the swiftest boat, as fast as an eagle swooping down on a rabbit.
  • 27. If I smile and try to forget my pain, all my suffering comes back to haunt me; I know that God does hold me guilty.
  • 28. {cf15I (SEE 9:27)}
  • 29. Since I am held guilty, why should I bother?
  • 30. No soap can wash away my sins.
  • 31. God throws me into a pit with filth, and even my clothes are ashamed of me.
  • 32. If God were human, I could answer him; we could go to court to decide our quarrel.
  • 33. But there is no one to step between us--- no one to judge both God and me.
  • 34. Stop punishing me, God! Keep your terrors away!
  • 35. I am not afraid. I am going to talk because I know my own heart.
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