Job 9:25-35

New King James Version

²⁵ “Now ^(A)my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.
²⁶ They pass by like ^[a]swift ships,
^(B)Like an eagle swooping on its prey.
^27 (C)If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,’
^28 (D)I am afraid of all my sufferings;
I know that You ^(E)will not hold me innocent.
²⁹ If I am condemned,
Why then do I labor in vain?
^30 (F)If I wash myself with snow water,
And cleanse my hands with ^[b]soap,
³¹ Yet You will plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes will ^[c]abhor me.

³² “For ^(G)He is not a man, as I am,
That I may answer Him,
And that we should go to court together.
^33 (H)Nor is there any mediator between us,
Who may lay his hand on us both.
^34 (I)Let Him take His rod away from me,
And do not let dread of Him terrify me.
³⁵ Then I would speak and not fear Him,
But it is not so with me.