Job 9: 1 - 12, 14 - 16
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Then Job answered:
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| 2
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"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
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| 3
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If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
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| 4
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He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength -- who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded? --
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he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
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who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
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who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
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who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
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| 9
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who made the Bear and Orion, the Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;
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| 10
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who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
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| 11
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Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
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| 12
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Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, `What doest thou'?
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| 14
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How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
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| 15
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Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
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| 16
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If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
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