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¹ Then Job answered and said:² Of a truth I know that it is so; and how can man be just with God?³ If one should desire to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one of a thousand.⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength; who hath hardened himself against Him, and prospered?⁵ Who removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturneth them in His anger.⁶ Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.⁷ Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.⁸ Who alone stretcheth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.⁹ Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.¹⁰ Who doeth great things past finding out; yea, marvellous things without number.¹¹ Lo, He goeth by me, and I see Him not. He passeth on also, but I perceive Him not.¹² Behold, He snatcheth away, who can hinder Him? Who will say unto Him: 'What doest Thou?'¹³ God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my arguments with Him?¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me.¹⁶ If I had called, and He had answered me; yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice--¹⁷ He that would break me with a tempest, and multiply my wounds without cause;¹⁸ That would not suffer me to take my breath, but fill me with bitterness.¹⁹ If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! and if of justice, who will appoint me a time?²⁰ Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me; though I be innocent, He shall prove me perverse.²¹ I am innocent--I regard not myself, I despise my life.

²² It is all one--therefore I say: He destroyeth the innocent and the wicked.²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covereth the faces of the judges thereof;

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey.²⁷ If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',²⁸ I am afraid of all my pains, I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless.²⁹ I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;³¹ Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine 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 arbiter betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.³⁴ Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;³⁵ Then would I speak, and not fear Him; for I am not so with myself.