16 If I summoned him and he answered me,
    I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
17 For he crushes me with a tempest
    and multiplies my wounds (A)without cause;
18 he will not let me get my breath,
    but fills me with bitterness.
19 If it is a contest of (B)strength, behold, he is mighty!
    If it is a matter of justice, who can (C)summon him?[a]
20 Though I am in the right, (D)my own mouth would condemn me;
    though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21 I am (E)blameless; I regard not myself;
    I (F)loathe my life.
22 It is all one; therefore I say,
    ‘He (G)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When (H)disaster brings sudden death,
    he mocks at the calamity[b] of the innocent.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:19 Or who can grant me a hearing?
  2. Job 9:23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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