| Job 9 - Versions
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| Job 9 Text (WEB)
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- Then Job answered,
- "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
- If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
- God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
- He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
- He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
- He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.
- He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
- He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
- He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
- Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
- Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
- "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
- How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
- Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
- If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
- For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
- If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
- Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
- I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
- "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
- If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
- The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
- "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,
- They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
- If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
- I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
- I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
- If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
- yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
- For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
- There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
- Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
- then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
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| Job 9 Text (Hebrew)
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- ויענ איוב ויאמר׃
- אמנם ידעתי כי־כן ומה־יצדק אנוש עם־אל׃
- אם־יחפץ לריב עמו לא־יעננו אחת מני־אלף׃
- חכם לבב ואמיץ כח מי־הקשה אליו וישלם׃
- המעתיק הרים ולא ידעו אשר הפכם באפו׃
- המרגיז ארץ ממקומה ועמודיה יתפלצון׃
- האמר לחרס ולא יזרח ובעד כוכבים יחתם׃
- נטה שמים לבדו ודורך על־במתי ים׃
- עשה־עש כסיל וכימה וחדרי תמן׃
- עשה גדלות עד־אין חקר ונפלאות עד־אין מספר׃
- הן יעבר עלי ולא אראה ויחלף ולא־אבין לו׃
- הן יחתף מי ישיבנו מי־יאמר אליו מה־תעשה׃
- אלוה לא־ישיב אפו שחחו עזרי רהב׃
- אף כי־אנכי אעננו אבחרה דברי עמו׃
- אשר אם־צדקתי לא אענה למשפטי אתחןן׃
- אם־קראתי ויענני לא־אאמין כי־יאזין קולי׃
- אשר־בשערה ישופני והרבה פצעי חנם׃
- לא־יתנני השב רוחי כי ישבעני ממררים׃
- אם־לכח אמיץ הנה ואם־למשפט מי יועידני׃
- אם־אצדק פי ירשיעני תם־אני ויעקשני׃
- תם־אני לא־אדע נפשי אמאס חיי׃
- אחת היא על־כן אמרתי תם ורשע הוא מכלה׃
- אם־שוט ימית פתאם למסת נקים ילעג׃
- ארץ נתנה ביד־רשע פני־שפטיה יכסה אם־לא אפוא מי־הוא׃
- וימי קלו מני־רץ ברחו לא־ראו טובה׃
- חלפו עם־אניות אבה כנשר יטוש עלי־אכל׃
- אם־אמרי אשכחה שיחי אעזבה פני ואבליגה׃
- יגרתי כל־עצבתי ידעתי כי־לא תנקני׃
- אנכי ארשע למה־זה הבל איגע׃
- אם־התרחצתי ־שלג והזכותי בבר כפי׃
- אז בשחת תטבלני ותעבוני שלמותי׃
- כי־לא־איש כמני אעננו נבוא יחדו במשפט׃
- לא יש־בינינו מוכיח ישת ידו על־שנינו׃
- יסר מעלי שבטו ואמתו אל־תבעתני׃
- אדברה ולא איראנו כי לא־כן אנכי עמדי׃
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| Job 9 Text (Latin)
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- Et respondens Job, ait :
- Vere scio quod ita sit, et quod non justificetur homo compositus Deo.
- Si voluerit contendere cum eo, non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille.
- Sapiens corde est, et fortis robore : quis restitit ei, et pacem habuit ?
- Qui transtulit montes, et nescierunt hi quos subvertit in furore suo.
- Qui commovet terram de loco suo, et columnæ ejus concutiuntur.
- Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur, et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.
- Qui extendit cælos solus, et graditur super fluctus maris.
- Qui facit Arcturum et Oriona, et Hyadas et interiora austri.
- Qui facit magna, et incomprehensibilia, et mirabilia, quorum non est numerus.
- Si venerit ad me, non videbo eum ; si abierit, non intelligam.
- Si repente interroget, quis respondebit ei ? vel quis dicere potest : Cur ita facis ?
- Deus, cujus iræ nemo resistere potest, et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem.
- Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei, et loquar verbis meis cum eo ?
- Qui, etiam si habuero quippiam justum, non respondebo : sed meum judicem deprecabor.
- Et cum invocantem exaudierit me, non credo quod audierit vocem meam.
- In turbine enim conteret me, et multiplicabit vulnera mea, etiam sine causa.
- Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum, et implet me amaritudinibus.
- Si fortitudo quæritur, robustissimus est ; si æquitas judicii, nemo audet pro me testimonium dicere.
- Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me ; si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit.
- Etiam si simplex fuero, hoc ipsum ignorabit anima mea, et tædebit me vitæ meæ.
- Unum est quod locutus sum : et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.
- Si flagellat, occidat semel, et non de pœnis innocentum rideat.
- Terra data est in manus impii, vultum judicum ejus operit. Quod si non ille est, quis ergo est ?
- Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore ; fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.
- Pertransierunt quasi naves poma portantes, sicut aquila volans ad escam.
- Cum dixero : Nequaquam ita loquar, commuto faciem meam, et dolore torqueor.
- Verebar omnia opera mea, sciens quod non parceres delinquenti.
- Si autem et sic impius sum, quare frustra laboravi ?
- Si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis, et fulserit velut mundissimæ manus meæ,
- tamen sordibus intinges me, et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea.
- Neque enim viro qui similis mei est, respondebo ; nec qui mecum in judicio ex æquo possit audiri.
- Non est qui utrumque valeat arguere, et ponere manum suam in ambobus.
- Auferat a me virgam suam, et pavor ejus non me terreat.
- Loquar, et non timebo eum ; neque enim possum metuens respondere.
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| Job 9 Text (KJV)
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- Then Job answered and said,
- I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
- Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
- Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
- Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
- Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
- Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
- Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
- If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
- How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
- Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
- For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
- If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
- If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
- Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
- The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
- Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
- If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
- If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
- Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
- Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
- Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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