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Job's Third Speech: A Response to Bildad
Chapter 9
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Then Job spoke again:
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"Yes, I know all this is true in principle. But how can a person be declared innocent in God's sight?
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If someone wanted to take God to court, would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?
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For God is so wise and so mighty. Who has ever challenged him successfully?
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"Without warning, he moves the mountains, overturning them in his anger.
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He shakes the earth from its place, and its foundations tremble.
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If he commands it, the sun won't rise and the stars won't shine.
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He alone has spread out the heavens and marches on the waves of the sea.
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He made all the stars--the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.
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He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.
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"Yet when he comes near, I cannot see him. When he moves by, I do not see him go.
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If he snatches someone in death, who can stop him? Who dares to ask, 'What are you doing?'
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And God does not restrain his anger. Even the monsters of the sea are crushed beneath his feet.
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"So who am I, that I should try to answer God or even reason with him?
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Even if I were right, I would have no defense. I could only plead for mercy.
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And even if I summoned him and he responded, I'm not sure he would listen to me.
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For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
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He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows.
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If it's a question of strength, he's the strong one. If it's a matter of justice, who dares to summon him to court?
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Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.
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"I am innocent, but it makes no difference to me-- I despise my life.
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Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God. That's why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
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When a plague sweeps through, he laughs at the death of the innocent.
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The whole earth is in the hands of the wicked, and God blinds the eyes of the judges. If he's not the one who does it, who is?
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"My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
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It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
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If I decided to forget my complaints, to put away my sad face and be cheerful,
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I would still dread all the pain, for I know you will not find me innocent, O God.
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Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. So what's the use of trying?
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Even if I were to wash myself with soap and clean my hands with lye,
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you would plunge me into a muddy ditch, and my own filthy clothing would hate me.
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"God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
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If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together.
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The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment.
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Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot do that in my own strength.