VIN(i)
1 To this Job replied,
2 Truly I know that this is so, Yet how can a mortal be righteous before El?
3 If he desires to contend with Him, He shall not answer him one time out of a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?
5 "He removes mountains without their knowledge, overthrowing them in his anger.
6 "He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.
7 "He commands the sun and it does not rise! He seals off the stars.
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9 He is the one who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
10 He does great things that cannot be explained, and awesome deeds that cannot be counted.
11 When he passed over me I did not see him. When he passed by me, I did not know how.
12 Look, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
13 God will not withdraw His anger. The cohorts of Rahab stoop under Him.
14 How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
15 "Though I was righteous, I could not answer him! I would beg mercy of my Judge.
16 If I summon him, and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice—
17 For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.
18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
19 If it is a matter of strength, look, he is mighty. But if it is a matter of justice, who can summon me?
20 »Though I was righteous, my own mouth would condemn me. If I were blameless it would prove me perverse.
21 I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
25 My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good;
26 They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
27 Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,'
28 "I am afraid of all my suffering and I know that God will not hold me innocent.
29 If I shall be declared guilty, why then should I labor in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow, and make my hands clean with soap,
31 then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me.
32 For he is not a man, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest.
33 Neither is there any arbitrator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
34 »Let God remove his rod from me. Do not let dread of him terrify me.
35 [Then] I will speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.