Job 9:25-35

Christian Standard Bible

²⁵ My days fly by faster than a runner;^[a](A)
they flee without seeing any good.^(B)
26 They sweep by like boats made of papyrus,
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.^(C)
27 If I said, “I will forget my complaint,
change my expression, and smile,”
²⁸ I would still live in terror of all my pains.^(D)
I know you will not acquit me.^(E)
29 Since I will be found guilty,^(F)
why should I struggle in vain?
³⁰ If I wash myself with snow,
and cleanse my hands with lye,
³¹ then you dip me in a pit of mud,
and my own clothes despise me!

³² For he is not a man like me, that I can answer him,^(G)
that we can take each other to court.
³³ There is no mediator between us,
to lay his hand on both of us.
³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me
so his terror will no longer frighten me.^(H)
35 Then I would speak and not fear him.
But that is not the case; I am on my own.