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² What you say is true.
No human is innocent
    in the sight of God.
³ Not once in a thousand times
could we win our case
    if we took him to court.
⁴ God is wise and powerful—
who could possibly
    oppose him and win?
⁵ When God becomes angry,
he can move mountains
    before they even know it.
⁶ God can shake the earth loose
    from its foundations
⁷ or command the sun and stars
    to hold back their light.
⁸ God alone stretched out the sky,
    stepped on the sea,^[a]
9 and set the stars in place—
    the Big Dipper and Orion,
the Pleiades and the stars
    in the southern sky.
¹⁰ Of all the miracles God works,
    we cannot understand a one.
¹¹ God walks right past me,
    without making a sound.
¹² And if he grabs something,
who can stop him
    or raise a question?

¹³ When God showed his anger,
the servants of the sea monster^[b]
    fell at his feet.
¹⁴ How, then, could I possibly
    argue my case with God?

¹⁵ Even though I am innocent,
    I can only beg for mercy.
¹⁶ And if God came into court
when I called him,
    he would not hear my case.
¹⁷ He would strike me with a storm^[c]
and increase my injuries
    for no reason at all.
¹⁸ Before I could get my breath,
    my miseries would multiply.
¹⁹ God is much stronger than I am,
and who would call me into court
    to give me justice?

²⁰ Even if I were innocent,
    God would prove me wrong.^[d]
21 I am not guilty,
but I no longer care
    what happens to me.
²² What difference does it make?
God destroys the innocent
    along with the guilty.
²³ When a good person dies
a sudden death,
    God sits back and laughs.
²⁴ And who else but God
    blindfolds the judges,
then lets the wicked
    take over the earth?

²⁵ My life is speeding by,
    without a hope of happiness.
²⁶ Each day passes swifter
than a sailing ship
    or an eagle swooping down.
²⁷ Sometimes I try to be cheerful
    and to stop complaining,
²⁸ but my sufferings frighten me,
because I know that God
    still considers me guilty.
²⁹ So what's the use of trying
    to prove my innocence?
³⁰ Even if I washed myself
    with the strongest soap,
³¹ God would throw me into a pit
of stinking slime,
leaving me
    disgusting to my clothes.

³² God isn't a mere human like me.
    I can't put him on trial.
³³ Who could possibly judge
    between the two of us?
³⁴ Can someone snatch away
the stick God carries
    to frighten me?
³⁵ Then I could speak up
without fear of him,
    but for now, I cannot speak.^[e]