# Daily Bible Reading | Job 9

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# ***JOB 9***

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*Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter*

\[1\] Then Job answered and said:

\[2\] “Truly I know that it is so:

But how can a man be in the right before God?

\[3\] If one wished to contend with him,

one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

\[4\] He is wise in heart and mighty in strength—

who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

\[5\] he who removes mountains, and they know it not,

when he overturns them in his anger,

\[6\] who shakes the earth out of its place,

and its pillars tremble;

\[7\] who commands the sun, and it does not rise;

who seals up the stars;

\[8\] who alone stretched out the heavens

and trampled the waves of the sea;

\[9\] who made the Bear and Orion,

the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;

\[10\] who does great things beyond searching out,

and marvelous things beyond number.

\[11\] Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not;

he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

\[12\] Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back?

Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

\[13\] “God will not turn back his anger;

beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

\[14\] How then can I answer him,

choosing my words with him?

\[15\] Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him;

I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

\[16\] If I summoned him and he answered me,

I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

\[17\] For he crushes me with a tempest

and multiplies my wounds without cause;

\[18\] he will not let me get my breath,

but fills me with bitterness.

\[19\] If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty!

If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

\[20\] Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;

though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

\[21\] I am blameless; I regard not myself;

I loathe my life.

\[22\] It is all one; therefore I say,

‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

\[23\] When disaster brings sudden death,

he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

\[24\] The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;

he covers the faces of its judges—

if it is not he, who then is it

\[25\] “My days are swifter than a runner;

they flee away; they see no good.

\[26\] They go by like skiffs of reed,

like an eagle swooping on the prey.

\[27\] If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,

I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’

\[28\] I become afraid of all my suffering,

for I know you will not hold me innocent.

\[29\] I shall be condemned;

why then do I labor in vain?

\[30\] If I wash myself with snow

and cleanse my hands with lye,

\[31\] yet you will plunge me into a pit,

and my own clothes will abhor me.

\[32\] For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,

that we should come to trial together.

\[33\] There is no arbiter between us,

who might lay his hand on us both.

\[34\] Let him take his rod away from me,

and let not dread of him terrify me.

\[35\] Then I would speak without fear of him,

for I am not so in myself. (ESV)