{"id":1278,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job09\/"},"modified":"2019-07-28T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T16:32:57","slug":"job09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job09\/","title":{"rendered":"Job 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 9<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then Job answered and said,  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>I know <span class=\"add\">it is<\/span> so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"add\">He is<\/span> wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened <span class=\"add\">himself<\/span> against him, and hath prospered?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Lo, he goeth by me, and I see <span class=\"add\">him<\/span> not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"add\">If<\/span> God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>How much less shall I answer him, <span class=\"add\">and<\/span> choose out my words <span class=\"add\">to reason<\/span> with him?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Whom, though I were righteous, <span class=\"add\">yet<\/span> would I not answer, <span class=\"add\">but<\/span> I would make supplication to my judge.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If I had called, and he had answered me; <span class=\"add\">yet<\/span> would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\">17\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\">18\u00a0<\/a><\/span>He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\">19\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If <span class=\"add\">I speak<\/span> of strength, lo, <span class=\"add\">he is<\/span> strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time <span class=\"add\">to plead? <\/span>  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\">20\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: <span class=\"add\">if I say, I am<\/span> perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\">21\u00a0<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"add\">Though<\/span> I <span class=\"add\">were<\/span> perfect, <span class=\"add\">yet<\/span> would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\">22\u00a0<\/a><\/span>This <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> one <span class=\"add\">thing,<\/span> therefore I said <span class=\"add\">it,<\/span> He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V23\">23\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V24\">24\u00a0<\/a><\/span>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, <span class=\"add\">and<\/span> who <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> he?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V25\">25\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V26\">26\u00a0<\/a><\/span>They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle <span class=\"add\">that<\/span> hasteth to the prey.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V27\">27\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort <span class=\"add\">myself: <\/span>  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V28\">28\u00a0<\/a><\/span>I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V29\">29\u00a0<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"add\">If<\/span> I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V30\">30\u00a0<\/a><\/span>If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V31\">31\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V32\">32\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For <span class=\"add\">he is<\/span> not a man, as I <span class=\"add\">am, that<\/span> I should answer him, <span class=\"add\">and<\/span> we should come together in judgment.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V33\">33\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, <span class=\"add\">that<\/span> might lay his hand upon us both.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V34\">34\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V35\">35\u00a0<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"add\">Then<\/span> would I speak, and not fear him; but <span class=\"add\">it is<\/span> not so with me. <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>Job Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job05\">5<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job06\">6<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job07\">7<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job08\">8<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job09\">9<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job10\">10<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job11\">11<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job12\">12<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job13\">13<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job14\">14<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job15\">15<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job16\">16<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job17\">17<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job18\">18<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job19\">19<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job20\">20<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job21\">21<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job22\">22<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job23\">23<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job24\">24<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job25\">25<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job26\">26<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job27\">27<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job28\">28<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job29\">29<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job30\">30<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job31\">31<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job32\">32<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job33\">33<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job34\">34<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job35\">35<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job36\">36<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job37\">37<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job38\">38<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job39\">39<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job40\">40<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job41\">41<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/job42\">42<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 1\u00a0Then Job answered and said, 2\u00a0I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3\u00a0If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4\u00a0 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5\u00a0Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6\u00a0Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7\u00a0Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. 8\u00a0Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. 9\u00a0Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. 10\u00a0Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. 11\u00a0Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 12\u00a0Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? 13\u00a0 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. 14\u00a0How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15\u00a0Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 16\u00a0If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 17\u00a0For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18\u00a0He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19\u00a0If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? 20\u00a0If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-job"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}