{"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/erv/job/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T20:05:25.452Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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":"Of a truth I know that it is so: but how can man be just with God?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"If he be pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Which removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Which alone stretcheth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Which maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab 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; I would make supplication to mine adversary."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If we speak of the strength of the mighty, lo, he is there! and if of judgment, who will appoint me a time?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"If the scourge slay suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if it be not he, who then is it?"},{"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 swoopeth on the prey."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"There is no daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid:"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Then would I speak, and not fear him; for I am not so in myself."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 9 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 9](https://primebible.com/erv/job/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}