Job 9:25-31

Modern English Version

²⁵ “Now my days are swifter than a runner;
    they flee away; they see no good.
²⁶ They pass by like reed skiffs,
    like an eagle rushing upon its prey.
²⁷ If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint;
    I will leave off my sad face and brighten up,’
²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows;
    I know that You will not hold me innocent.
²⁹ If I am guilty,
    why then do I labor in vain?
³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water
    and cleanse my hands with soap,
³¹ yet You will plunge me into the pit,
    and my own clothes will abhor me.