Job 9:21-22-34 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

3. How can anyone argue with him?He can ask a thousand questionsthat no one could ever answer.

4. God is so wise and powerful;no one can stand up against him.

5. Without warning he moves mountainsand in anger he destroys them.

6. God sends earthquakes and shakes the ground;he rocks the pillars that support the earth.

7. He can keep the sun from rising,and the stars from shining at night.

8. No one helped God spread out the heavensor trample the sea monster's back.

9. God hung the stars in the sky — the Great Bear,Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south.

21-22. I am innocent, but I no longer care.I am sick of living. Nothing matters;innocent or guilty, God will destroy us.

23. When an innocent person suddenly dies,God laughs.

24. God gave the world to the wicked.He made all the judges blind.And if God didn't do it, who did?

25. My days race by, not one of them good.

26. My life passes like the swiftest boat,as fast as an eagle swooping down on a rabbit.

27-28. If I smile and try to forget my pain,all my suffering comes back to haunt me;I know that God does hold me guilty.

29. Since I am held guilty, why should I bother?

30. No soap can wash away my sins.

31. God throws me into a pit of filth,and even my clothes are ashamed of me.

32. If God were human, I could answer him;we could go to court to decide our quarrel.

33. But there is no one to step between us —no one to judge both God and me.

34. Stop punishing me, God!Keep your terrors away!

Job 9