Job 9:25-31

World English Bible

²⁵ “Now my days are swifter than a runner.
    They flee away. They see no good.
²⁶ They have passed away as the swift ships,
    as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
²⁷ If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
    I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows,
    I know that you will not hold me innocent.
²⁹ I will be condemned.
    Why then do I labor in vain?
³⁰ If I wash myself with snow,
    and cleanse my hands with lye,
³¹ yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
    My own clothes will abhor me.