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1Then Job answered and said:

1This was Job's response:

2“Truly I know it is so, But how can a man be righteous before God?

2"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

3If one wished to contend with Him, He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

3If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.

4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?

4He is wise in heart and strong in will— who can be stubborn against him and succeed?

5He removes the mountains, and they do not know When He overturns them in His anger;

5"He removes mountains without their knowledge, overthrowing them in his anger.

6He shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble;

6He shakes the earth from its orbit, so that its foundations shudder.

7He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals off the stars;

7He commands the sun so that it doesn't shine and seals up the stars.

8He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea;

8He alone spreads out the heavens, he walks on the waves of the sea.

9He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

9He created Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the southern constellations.

10He does great things past finding out, Yes, wonders without number.

10He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.

11If He goes by me, I do not see Him; If He moves past, I do not perceive Him;

11"If he were to pass near me, I wouldn't notice; if he moves by, I wouldn't perceive him.

12If He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who can say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

12Indeed, if he snatches someone away, who could restrain him? Who can say to him, 'What are you doing?'

13God will not withdraw His anger, The allies of the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.

13"God doesn't restrain his anger. Rahab's assistants are humiliated under him.

14“How then can I answer Him, And choose my words to reason with Him?

14So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?

15For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge.

15Even if I'm in the right, I cannot answer him. I can only appeal for mercy.

16If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

16"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.

17For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.

17For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.

18He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitterness.

18He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness.

19If it is a matter of strength, indeed He is strong; And if of justice, who will appoint my day in court?

19"Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger! Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him?

20Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

20Though I'm in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I'm blameless, he'll pronounce me as guilty.

21“I am blameless, yet I do not know myself; I despise my life.

21"I'm blameless; I don't know myself; I despise my life.

22It is all one thing; Therefore I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’

22I say it's all the same— he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.

23If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the plight of the innocent.

23If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, who else could it be?

24A land is given into the hands of a wicked person; he covers the faces of its judges. If it is not God, then who is it?"

25“Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.

25"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.

26They pass by like swift ships, Like an eagle swooping on its prey.

26They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,’

27If I were to say, 'Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,

28I am afraid of all my sufferings; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

28then I still dread all of my suffering; I know you still won't acquit me.

29If I am condemned, Why then do I labor in vain?

29I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility?

30If I wash myself with snow water, And cleanse my hands with soap,

30"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

31Yet You will plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes will abhor me.

31you'll still drop me into the Pit, and my own clothes will despise me.

32“For He is not a man, as I am, That I may answer Him, And that we should go to court together.

32He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

33Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.

33There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,

34Let Him take His rod away from me, And do not let dread of Him terrify me.

34removing his rod from me, and not letting terror of him overwhelm me.

35Then I would speak and not fear Him, But it is not so with me.

35Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."

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