Part 8

18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

18:009:015 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

18:009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

18:010:001 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

18:010:002 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

18:010:003 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

18:010:004 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

18:010:005 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,