Job 9:16-23

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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.