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Job Chapter 9

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Job

9
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In this chapter God speaks to Job, asking who can stand before Him, emphasizing that only God is worthy of such awe. The passage highlights the vastness of God's power and the limit of human understanding. It teaches that God's words are true and beyond human comparison.

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(1) Then Job answered and said,
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Job 4:17Job 14:3Job 14:4Job 25:4Job 32:2Job 33:9Job 34:5I Kings 8:46Psalms 130:3Psalms 143:2Romans 3:20

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Job 1:5Job 42:8

(2) I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
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Leviticus 19:36Ezekiel 45:10

(3) If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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Job 9:20Job 9:32Job 9:33Job 10:2Job 23:3Job 23:4Job 23:5Job 23:6Job 23:7Job 31:35Job 31:36Job 31:37

(4) He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
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Job 9:19Job 36:5Psalms 104:24Psalms 136:5Daniel 2:20Daniel 4:34Daniel 4:35Daniel 4:36Daniel 4:37Romans 11:33Ephesians 1:8Ephesians 1:19

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Proverbs 21:22Job 36:5

(5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
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Job 28:9Psalms 46:2Psalms 68:8Psalms 114:6Isaiah 40:12Habakkuk 3:6Habakkuk 3:10Zechariah 4:7Matthew 21:21I Corinthians 13:2Revelation 6:14Revelation 11:13

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Joshua 11:21Zechariah 6:1

(6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
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Isaiah 2:19Isaiah 2:21Isaiah 13:13Isaiah 13:14Isaiah 24:1Isaiah 24:19Isaiah 24:20Haggai 2:6Haggai 2:21Hebrews 12:26Revelation 20:11Job 26:11

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Exodus 38:17I Kings 7:41II Chronicles 4:12

(7) Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
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Exodus 10:21Exodus 10:22Joshua 10:12Daniel 4:35Amos 4:13Amos 8:9Matthew 24:29Job 37:7Job 38:12Job 38:13Job 38:14Job 38:15

(8) Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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Job 37:18Genesis 1:6Genesis 1:7Psalms 33:6Psalms 104:2Psalms 104:3Isaiah 40:22Isaiah 42:5Isaiah 44:24Jeremiah 10:11Zechariah 12:1Job 38:11

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Psalms 148:4Isaiah 44:24

(9) Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
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Job 38:31Job 38:32Job 38:33Job 38:34Job 38:35Job 38:36Job 38:37Job 38:38Job 38:39Job 38:40Job 38:41Genesis 1:16

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Ezekiel 42:13I Samuel 27:10Ezekiel 20:46Amos 5:8

(10) Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
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Job 5:9Job 26:12Job 26:13Job 26:14Job 37:23Psalms 71:15Psalms 72:18Ecclesiastes 3:11Isaiah 40:26Isaiah 40:27Isaiah 40:28Romans 11:33

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Revelation 13:18

(11) Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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Job 23:8Job 23:9Job 35:14Psalms 77:19I Timothy 6:16

(12) Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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Job 23:13Job 34:29Daniel 4:35Ephesians 1:11Job 11:10Job 33:13Isaiah 45:9Jeremiah 18:6Matthew 11:26Matthew 20:15Romans 9:18Romans 9:19

(13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
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Job 26:12Job 40:9Job 40:10Job 40:11Isaiah 30:7Isaiah 31:2Isaiah 31:3James 4:6James 4:7

(14) How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
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Job 4:19Job 25:6I Kings 8:27Job 11:4Job 11:5Job 23:4Job 23:7Job 33:5

(15) Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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Job 10:15I Corinthians 4:4Job 5:8Job 8:5Job 10:2Job 22:27Job 34:31Job 34:32I Kings 8:38I Kings 8:39II Chronicles 33:13Jeremiah 31:9

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Genesis 18:25Matthew 10:41John 7:24Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(16) If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
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Psalms 18:6Psalms 66:18Psalms 66:19Psalms 66:20Psalms 116:1Psalms 116:2Job 29:24Exodus 6:9Judges 6:13Psalms 126:1Luke 24:41Acts 12:14

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I Corinthians 14:22John 10:38

(17) For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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Job 16:14Psalms 29:5Psalms 42:7Psalms 83:15Isaiah 28:17Jeremiah 23:19Ezekiel 13:13Matthew 7:27Matthew 12:20Job 1:14Job 1:15Job 1:16

(18) He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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Job 7:19Psalms 39:13Psalms 88:7Psalms 88:15Psalms 88:16Psalms 88:17Psalms 88:18Lamentations 3:3Lamentations 3:18Job 3:20Lamentations 3:15Lamentations 3:19

(19) If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
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Job 9:4Job 36:17Job 36:18Job 36:19Job 40:9Job 40:10Psalms 62:11Matthew 6:13I Corinthians 1:25I Corinthians 10:22Job 9:32Job 9:33

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Isaiah 28:7Joshua 14:11Psalms 99:4Isaiah 28:6Haggai 2:4Judges 6:31

(20) If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Job 9:2Job 4:17Job 32:1Job 32:2Psalms 130:3Psalms 143:2Luke 10:29Luke 16:15Job 15:5Job 15:6Job 34:35Job 35:16

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Psalms 101:2

(21) Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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Psalms 139:23Psalms 139:24Proverbs 28:26Jeremiah 17:9Jeremiah 17:10I Corinthians 4:4I John 3:20Job 7:15Job 7:16Job 7:21

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(22) This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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Ecclesiastes 9:1Ecclesiastes 9:2Ecclesiastes 9:3Ezekiel 21:3Ezekiel 21:4Luke 13:2Luke 13:3Luke 13:4

(23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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Job 1:13Job 1:14Job 1:15Job 1:16Job 1:17Job 1:18Job 1:19Job 2:7Job 4:7Job 8:20II Samuel 14:15II Samuel 14:17

(24) 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?
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Job 12:6Job 12:7Job 12:8Job 12:9Job 12:10Job 21:7Job 21:8Job 21:9Job 21:10Job 21:11Job 21:12Job 21:13

(25) Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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Job 7:6Job 7:7Esther 8:14Psalms 39:5Psalms 39:11Psalms 89:47Psalms 90:9Psalms 90:10James 4:14

(26) They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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Job 39:27Job 39:28Job 39:29Job 39:30II Samuel 1:23Proverbs 23:5Jeremiah 4:13Lamentations 4:19Habakkuk 1:8

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I Samuel 9:4Judges 11:29II Samuel 15:23Judges 5:30

(27) If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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Job 7:13Psalms 77:2Psalms 77:3Jeremiah 8:18

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Job 10:1Isaiah 49:15

(28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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Job 21:6Psalms 88:15Psalms 88:16Psalms 119:120Job 9:2Job 9:20Job 9:21Job 14:16Exodus 20:7Psalms 130:3

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II Kings 8:12Isaiah 13:8Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6Exodus 15:26Isaiah 64:12

(29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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Job 9:22Job 10:7Job 10:14Job 10:15Job 10:16Job 10:17Job 21:16Job 21:17Job 21:27Job 22:5Job 22:6Job 22:7

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I Samuel 1:8Psalms 127:1

(30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Psalms 26:6Proverbs 28:13Isaiah 1:16Isaiah 1:17Isaiah 1:18Jeremiah 2:22Jeremiah 4:14Romans 10:3I John 1:8

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Leviticus 13:6Leviticus 13:34Leviticus 14:8Leviticus 14:9Numbers 19:19Psalms 51:7

(31) Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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Job 9:20Job 15:6Isaiah 59:6Isaiah 64:6Philippians 3:8Philippians 3:9

(32) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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Job 33:12Job 35:5Job 35:6Job 35:7Numbers 23:19I Samuel 16:7Ecclesiastes 6:10Isaiah 45:9Jeremiah 49:19Romans 9:20I John 3:20Job 13:18

(33) Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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Job 9:19I Samuel 2:25Psalms 106:23I John 2:1I John 2:2I Kings 3:16I Kings 3:17I Kings 3:18I Kings 3:19I Kings 3:20I Kings 3:21I Kings 3:22

(34) Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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Job 13:11Job 13:20Job 13:21Job 13:22Job 23:15Job 31:23Job 33:7Job 37:1Psalms 39:10Psalms 90:11Job 29:2Job 29:3

(35) Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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