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¹ Then Job answered and said,² Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can common man be just with God?³ If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one of a thousand.⁴ [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?-⁵ [Him] that removes the mountains, and they do not know it, When he overturns them in his anger;⁶ That shakes the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;⁷ That commands the sun, and it does not rise, And seals up the stars;⁸ That alone stretches out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea;⁹ That makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;¹⁰ That does great things past finding out, Yes, marvelous things without number.¹¹ Look, he goes by me, and I don't see him: He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.¹² Look, he seizes [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are you doing?¹³ God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words [to reason] with him?¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I would plead for mercy to my judge.¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet I would not believe that he listened to my voice.¹⁷ For he breaks me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.¹⁹ If [we speak] of strength, look, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [he says], will summon me?²⁰ Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.²¹ I am perfect; I do not regard myself; I despise my life.

²² It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.²³ If the scourge slays suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of the judges thereof: If [it is] not [he], then who is it?

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,²⁶ They are 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] countenance, and be of good cheer;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 clean my my hands with lye;³¹ Yet you will plunge me in the ditch, And my own clothes will be disgusted with me.³² For he is not a man as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.³³ If only there were an umpire between us that might lay his hand on us both,³⁴ [then] he would take his rod away from me, and his terror would not make me afraid.³⁵ Then I would speak and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.