Job 9:23-35
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23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
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25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.