{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:03:24.971Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":9,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Which removes the mountains, and they know not: which overturns them in his anger."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Which shakes the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Which does great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"See, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What do you?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had listened to my voice."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If I speak of strength, see, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"If the whip slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Neither is there any judge between us, that might lay his hand on us both."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 9 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 9](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}