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¹ Then Iyov answered, ² "Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God? ³ If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand. ⁴ God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? ⁵ Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger ⁶ Who shakes the eretz out of its place; The pillars of it tremble; ⁷ Who commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, And seals up the stars; ⁸ Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea; ⁹ Who makes Ayish, Kesil, and the Kima, And the chambers of the south; ¹⁰ Who does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number. ¹¹ Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him. ¹² Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?' ¹³ "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rachav stoop under him.

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him? ¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge. ¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice. ¹⁷ For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause. ¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness. ¹⁹ If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?' ²⁰ Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. ²¹ I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

²² "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked. ²³ If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent. ²⁴ The eretz is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it?

²⁵ "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, ²⁶ They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey. ²⁷ If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;' ²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that 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 in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me. ³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment. ³³ There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both. ³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, Let his terror not make me afraid: ³⁵ Then I would speak, and not fear him, For I am not so in myself.