Job 9

1Then Job answered and said,

וַיַּעַן אִיֹּוב וַיֹּאמַר׃ (412)

2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

אָמְנָם יָדַעְתִּי כִי־כֵן וּמַה־יִּצְדַּק אֱנֹושׁ עִם־אֵל׃ (1478)

3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

אִם־יַחְפֹּץ לָרִיב עִמֹּו לֹא־יַעֲנֶנּוּ אַחַת מִנִּי־אָלֶף׃ (1424)

4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

חֲכַם לֵבָב וְאַמִּיץ כֹּחַ מִי־הִקְשָׁה אֵלָיו וַיִּשְׁלָם׃ (1170)

5Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

הַמַּעְתִּיק הָרִים וְלֹא יָדָעוּ אֲשֶׁר הֲפָכָם בְּאַפֹּו׃ (1742)

6Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

הַמַּרְגִּיז אֶרֶץ מִמְּקֹומָהּ וְעַמּוּדֶיהָ יִתְפַלָּצוּן ׃ (1594)

7Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

הָאֹמֵר לַחֶרֶס וְלֹא יִזְרָח וּבְעַד כֹּוכָבִים יַחְתֹּם׃ (1444)

See also: Isaiah 13:10, Joshua 10:12, Amos 8:9, Luke 21:25-26, Exodus 10:21-22, Job 37:7, Job 38:19-20, Ezekiel 32:7-8, Daniel 4:35, Amos 4:13, Matthew 24:29, Job 38:12-15

8Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

נֹטֶה שָׁמַיִם לְבַדֹּו וְדֹורֵךְ עַל־בָּמֳתֵי יָם׃ (1334)

9Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

עֹשֶׂה־עָשׁ כְּסִיל וְכִימָה וְחַדְרֵי תֵמָן׃ (1664)

See also: Amos 5:8, Job 38:31, Genesis 1:16, Job 37:9, Psalms 147:4, Psalms 104:13, Acts 28:13, Job 38:32, Psalms 104:3

10Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

עֹשֶׂה גְדֹלֹות עַד־אֵין חֵקֶר וְנִפְלָאֹות עַד־אֵין מִסְפָּר׃ (2349)

See also: Job 5:9, Psalms 72:18, Psalms 40:5, Romans 11:33, Ephesians 3:20, Psalms 136:4, Daniel 4:2-3, Psalms 145:3, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Isaiah 40:26-28, Exodus 15:11, Psalms 71:15, Job 37:23, Job 37:5, Job 26:12-14, Acts 2:11, Psalms 111:2, Ezekiel 1:16

11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

הֵן יַעֲבֹר עָלַי וְלֹא אֶרְאֶה וְיַחֲלֹף וְלֹא־אָבִין לֹו׃ (961)

See also: Job 23:8-9, Job 35:14, Psalms 77:19, 1 Timothy 6:16, Genesis 28:16

12Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

הֵן יַחְתֹּף מִי יְשִׁיבֶנּוּ מִי־יֹאמַר אֵלָיו מַה־תַּעֲשֶׂה׃ (2149)

13If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

אֱלֹוהַּ לֹא־יָשִׁיב אַפֹּו [תַּחַתֹו כ] (תַּחְתָּיו ק) חֲחוּ עֹזְרֵי רָהַב׃ (2756)

See also: Job 26:12, Psalms 89:10, Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 51:9, James 4:6-7, Psalms 87:4, Isaiah 31:2-3, 2 Samuel 8:5, 2 Chronicles 25:8, Job 36:19, Psalms 107:12, Isaiah 14:6, Jeremiah 47:4, Ezekiel 30:6, Job 40:9-11, Psalms 108:12

14How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

אַף כִּי־אָנֹכִי אֶעֱנֶנּוּ אֶבְחֲרָה דְבָרַי עִמֹּו׃ (917)

See also: Job 36:5, 1 Kings 8:27, 2 Chronicles 6:18, Job 4:19, Job 9:3, Job 11:4-5, Job 13:3, Job 23:4, Job 23:7, Job 25:6, Job 33:5, Job 33:13, Job 35:15

15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

אֲשֶׁר אִם־צָדַקְתִּי לֹא אֶעֱנֶה לִמְשֹׁפְטִי אֶתְחַנָּן׃ (2281)

See also: Job 10:15, Job 8:5, Esther 4:8, Job 40:5, Job 5:8, Job 10:2, Job 22:27, Job 31:28, 1 Peter 2:23, Judges 11:27, 1 Kings 8:38-39, 2 Chronicles 33:13, Job 23:7, Job 34:31-32, Jeremiah 31:9, Daniel 9:3, Daniel 9:18, 1 Corinthians 4:4

16If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

אִם־קָרָאתִי וַיַּעֲנֵנִי לֹא־אַאֲמִין כִּי־יַאֲזִין קֹולִי׃ (1335)

See also: Psalms 126:1, Luke 24:11, Mark 16:11, John 20:25, Genesis 45:26, Exodus 6:9, Judges 6:13, Job 13:22, Job 15:22, Job 29:24, Job 39:24, Psalms 18:6, Psalms 66:18-20, Psalms 116:1-2, Luke 24:41, Acts 12:14-16, Acts 12:15, Song of Solomon 2:14

17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָה יְשׁוּפֵנִי וְהִרְבָּה פְצָעַי חִנָּם׃ (2100)

See also: Job 2:3, Job 16:14, Psalms 83:15, Job 6:4, Job 16:12, Job 34:6, Job 40:2, Job 1:14-19, Job 2:7, Job 2:13, Job 16:17, Job 30:22, Job 33:9, Job 34:5, Job 35:2, Psalms 25:3, Psalms 29:5, Psalms 42:7, Isaiah 28:17, Jeremiah 23:19

18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

לֹא־יִתְּנֵנִי הָשֵׁב רוּחִי כִּי יַשְׂבִּעַנִי מַמְּרֹרִים׃ (2084)

See also: 1 Samuel 1:10, Job 7:19, Lamentations 3:15, Job 3:20, Job 21:25, Job 27:2, Psalms 39:13, Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:15-18, Proverbs 14:10, Lamentations 3:3, Lamentations 3:18-19, Hebrews 12:11

19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

אִם־לְכֹחַ אַמִּיץ הִנֵּה וְאִם־לְמִשְׁפָּט מִי יֹועִידֵנִי׃ (1016)

20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

אִם־אֶצְדָּק פִּי יַרְשִׁיעֵנִי תָּם־אָנִי וַיַּעְקְשֵׁנִי׃ (2023)

21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

תָּם־אָנִי לֹא־אֵדַע נַפְשִׁי אֶמְאַס חַיָּי׃ (1177)

See also: Job 1:1, Job 7:16, Job 10:1, Job 33:9, Psalms 139:23-24, Job 7:21, Proverbs 28:26, 1 Corinthians 4:4, Job 7:15-16, Job 35:3, Jeremiah 17:9-10, Jeremiah 49:19, 1 John 3:20

22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

אַחַת הִיא עַל־כֵּן אָמַרְתִּי תָּם וְרָשָׁע הוּא מְכַלֶּה׃ (2369)

See also: Job 8:20, Ecclesiastes 9:2, Ezekiel 21:3, Job 1:8, Job 4:7, Job 34:9, Job 15:5, Ecclesiastes 9:1-3, Job 9:29, Job 10:3, Job 10:8, Job 30:23, Job 34:15, Ecclesiastes 7:15, Ecclesiastes 8:14, Luke 13:2-4, Genesis 18:25

23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

אִםשֹׁ־וט יָמִית פִּתְאֹם לְמַסַּת נְקִיִּם יִלְעָג׃ (2180)

See also: Job 24:12, Genesis 14:12, 2 Samuel 14:15, 2 Samuel 14:17, Job 1:13-19, Job 2:7, Job 4:7, Job 8:20, Job 22:19, Job 33:9, Psalms 44:22, Ezekiel 14:19-21, Ezekiel 21:13, Hebrews 11:36-37

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

אֶרֶץ ׀ נִתְּנָה בְיַד־רָשָׁע פְּנֵי־שֹׁפְטֶיהָ יְכַסֶּה אִם־לֹא אֵפֹוא מִי־הוּא׃ (2243)

25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

וְיָמַי קַלּוּ מִנִּי־רָץ בָּרְחוּ לֹא־רָאוּ טֹובָה׃ (1068)

See also: Job 14:2, Job 14:1, James 4:14, Job 7:6, Psalms 39:5, 1 Peter 3:10, 2 Chronicles 30:6, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 90:9-10, 2 Chronicles 30:10, Esther 3:13, Esther 8:10, Esther 8:14, Job 7:7, Job 10:20, Job 17:11, Psalms 39:11, Isaiah 38:12, Jeremiah 51:31

26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

חָלְפוּ עִם־אֳנִיֹּות אֵבֶה כְּנֶשֶׁר יָטוּשׂ עֲלֵי־אֹכֶל׃ (1765)

See also: Habakkuk 1:8, 2 Samuel 1:23, Job 39:29, Isaiah 18:2, Job 24:18, Job 39:27-30, Psalms 90:5, Proverbs 23:5, Jeremiah 4:13, Lamentations 4:19

27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

אִם־אָמְרִי אֶשְׁכְּחָה שִׂיחִי אֶעֶזְבָה פָנַי וְאַבְלִיגָה׃ (1236)

See also: 1 Peter 1:6, Job 7:13, Job 7:11, Job 30:15, Psalms 13:2, Psalms 73:13, Psalms 77:2-3, Jeremiah 8:18, Philippians 2:26

28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

יָגֹרְתִּי כָל־עַצְּבֹתָי יָדַעְתִּי כִּי־לֹא תְנַקֵּנִי׃ (2410)

See also: Psalms 119:120, Job 3:25, Job 7:21, Job 9:2, Job 9:20-21, Job 10:14, Job 14:16, Job 21:6, Psalms 88:15-16, Psalms 130:3, Philippians 3:9, Exodus 20:7, 1 Kings 2:9, Job 33:9

29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

אָנֹכִי אֶרְשָׁע לָמָּה־זֶּה הֶבֶל אִיגָע׃ (860)

See also: Genesis 3:7, Job 10:2, Job 10:7, Galatians 2:16, Job 7:20, Job 9:22, Job 10:14-17, Job 10:15, Job 21:16-17, Job 21:27, Job 22:5-30, Psalms 37:33, Psalms 73:13, Jeremiah 2:35

30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

אִם־הִתְרָחַצְתִּי [בְמֹו כ] (בְמֵי־שָׁלֶג ק) וַהֲזִכֹּותִי בְּבֹר כַּפָּי׃ (2475)

See also: Jeremiah 2:22, Zechariah 13:1, Job 34:9, Psalms 26:6, Matthew 27:24, Mark 7:4, Deuteronomy 21:6, Job 4:17, Job 33:10, Job 35:3, Psalms 24:4, James 4:8, 1 John 1:8, Job 31:7, Proverbs 28:13, Isaiah 1:16-18, Jeremiah 4:14, Romans 10:3

31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

אָז בַּשַּׁחַת תִּטְבְּלֵנִי וְתִעֲבוּנִי שַׂלְמֹותָי׃ (2549)

See also: Job 30:19, Nahum 3:6, Job 40:4, Job 7:5, Job 9:20, Job 15:6, Job 42:6, Psalms 73:13, Isaiah 59:6, Isaiah 64:6, Philippians 3:8-9

32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

כִּי־לֹא־אִישׁ כָּמֹנִי אֶעֱנֶנּוּ נָבֹוא יַחְדָּו בַּמִּשְׁפָּט׃ (1187)

33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

לֹא יֵשׁ־בֵּינֵינוּ מֹוכִיחַ יָשֵׁת יָדֹו עַל־שְׁנֵינוּ׃ (1799)

See also: 1 Samuel 2:25, Job 9:19, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 John 2:1-2, Psalms 106:23, Galatians 3:20, Job 23:6, Psalms 139:5, Job 17:3, 1 Kings 3:16-28

34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

יָסֵר מֵעָלַי שִׁבְטֹו וְאֵמָתֹו אַל־תְּבַעֲתַנִּי׃ (2153)

See also: Psalms 39:10, Job 16:21, Job 21:9, Job 33:7, Job 13:11, Job 13:21, Job 13:3, Job 13:20-22, Job 23:15, Job 29:2-25, Job 31:23, Job 37:1, Psalms 89:32, Psalms 90:11

35Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

אַדַבְּרָה וְלֹא אִירָאֶנּוּ כִּי לֹא־כֵן אָנֹכִי עִמָּדִי׃ (853)