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1. Then Job answered:
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1. Then Job H347 answered H6030 and said H559 ,
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2. "Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
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2. I know H3045 it is so H3588 H3651 of a truth H551 : but how H4100 should man H582 be just H6663 with H5973 God H410 ?
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3. If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
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3. If H518 he will H2654 contend H7378 with H5973 him , he cannot H3808 answer H6030 him one H259 of H4480 a thousand H505 .
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4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength� who has resisted him and remained safe?
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4. He is wise H2450 in heart H3824 , and mighty H533 in strength H3581 : who H4310 hath hardened H7185 himself against H413 him , and hath prospered H7999 ?
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5. He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;
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5. Which removeth H6275 the mountains H2022 , and they know H3045 not H3808 : which H834 overturneth H2015 them in his anger H639 .
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6. he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;
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6. Which shaketh H7264 the earth H776 out of her place H4480 H4725 , and the pillars H5982 thereof tremble H6426 .
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7. he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;
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7. Which commandeth H559 the sun H2775 , and it riseth H2224 not H3808 ; and sealeth up H2856 the stars H3556 .
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8. he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
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8. Which alone H905 spreadeth out H5186 the heavens H8064 , and treadeth H1869 upon H5921 the waves H1116 of the sea H3220 .
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9. he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;
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9. Which maketh H6213 Arcturus H5906 , Orion H3685 , and Pleiades H3598 , and the chambers H2315 of the south H8486 .
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10. he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.
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10. Which doeth H6213 great things H1419 past H5704 H369 finding out H2714 ; yea , and wonders H6381 without H5704 H369 number H4557 .
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11. If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
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11. Lo H2005 , he goeth H5674 by H5921 me , and I see H7200 him not H3808 : he passeth on H2498 also , but I perceive H995 him not H3808 .
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12. If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, 'What are you doing?'
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12. Behold H2005 , he taketh away H2862 , who H4310 can hinder H7725 him? who H4310 will say H559 unto H413 him, What H4100 doest H6213 thou?
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13. God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.
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13. If God H433 will not H3808 withdraw H7725 his anger H639 , the proud H7295 helpers H5826 do stoop H7817 under H8478 him.
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14. "How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
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14. How much less H637 H3588 shall I H595 answer H6030 him, and choose out H977 my words H1697 to reason with H5973 him?
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15. Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
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15. Whom H834 , though H518 I were righteous H6663 , yet would I not H3808 answer H6030 , but I would make supplication H2603 to my judge H8199 .
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16. If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice�
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16. If H518 I had called H7121 , and he had answered H6030 me; yet would I not H3808 believe H539 that H3588 he had hearkened H238 unto my voice H6963 .
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17. he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
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17. For H834 he breaketh H7779 me with a tempest H8183 , and multiplieth H7235 my wounds H6482 without cause H2600 .
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18. He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
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18. He will not H3808 suffer H5414 me to take H7725 my breath H7307 , but H3588 filleth H7646 me with bitterness H4472 .
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19. If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, 'Who will summon me?'
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19. If H518 I speak of strength H3581 , lo H2009 , he is strong H533 : and if H518 of judgment H4941 , who H4310 shall set me a time H3259 to plead ?
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20. Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.
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20. If H518 I justify H6663 myself , mine own mouth H6310 shall condemn H7561 me: if I say , I H589 am perfect H8535 , it shall also prove me perverse H6140 .
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21. I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
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21. Though I H589 were perfect H8535 , yet would I not H3808 know H3045 my soul H5315 : I would despise H3988 my life H2416 .
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22. "It is all one! That is why I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the guilty.'
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22. This H1931 is one H259 thing , therefore H5921 H3651 I said H559 it , He H1931 destroyeth H3615 the perfect H8535 and the wicked H7563 .
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23. If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
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23. If H518 the scourge H7752 slay H4191 suddenly H6597 , he will laugh H3932 at the trial H4531 of the innocent H5355 .
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24. If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?
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24. The earth H776 is given H5414 into the hand H3027 of the wicked H7563 : he covereth H3680 the faces H6440 of the judges H8199 thereof; if H518 not H3808 , where H645 , and who H4310 is he H1931 ?
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25. "My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
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25. Now my days H3117 are swifter H7043 than H4480 a post H7323 : they flee away H1272 , they see H7200 no H3808 good H2896 .
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26. They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
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26. They are passed away H2498 as H5973 the swift H16 ships H591 : as the eagle H5404 that hasteth H2907 to H5921 the prey H400 .
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27. If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,'
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27. If H518 I say H559 , I will forget H7911 my complaint H7879 , I will leave off H5800 my heaviness H6440 , and comfort H1082 myself :
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28. I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
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28. I am afraid H3025 of all H3605 my sorrows H6094 , I know H3045 that H3588 thou wilt not H3808 hold me innocent H5352 .
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29. If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
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29. If I H595 be wicked H7561 , why H4100 then H2088 labor H3021 I in vain H1892 ?
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30. If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
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30. If H518 I wash myself H7364 with snow H7950 water H4325 , and make my hands H3709 never H1253 so clean H2141 ;
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31. then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
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31. Yet H227 shalt thou plunge H2881 me in the ditch H7845 , and mine own clothes H8008 shall abhor H8581 me.
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32. For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
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32. For H3588 he is not H3808 a man H376 , as I H3644 am, that I should answer H6030 him, and we should come H935 together H3162 in judgment H4941 .
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33. Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,
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33. Neither H3808 is there H3426 any daysman H3198 between H996 us, that might lay H7896 his hand H3027 upon H5921 us both H8147 .
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34. who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.
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34. Let him take his rod away H5493 H7626 from H4480 H5921 me , and let not H408 his fear H367 terrify H1204 me:
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35. Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.
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35. Then would I speak H1696 , and not H3808 fear H3372 him; but H3588 it is not H3808 so H3651 with H5978 me.
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