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¹ Then Job answered:² "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just 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 Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;¹⁰ who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.¹¹ Lo, 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 hinder him? Who will say to him, 'What doest thou'?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 innocent, 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 him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?²⁰ Though I am innocent, 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 countenance, and be of good cheer,'²⁸ I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt 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 thou wilt 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 umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon 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.