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Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man
Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
Job’s Third Speech: A Response to Bildad
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
“Yes, I know all this is true in principle.
But how can a person be declared innocent in God’s sight?
But how can a person be declared innocent in God’s sight?
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
For God is so wise and so mighty.
Who has ever challenged him successfully?
Who has ever challenged him successfully?
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
“Without warning, he moves the mountains,
overturning them in his anger.
overturning them in his anger.
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
He shakes the earth from its place,
and its foundations tremble.
and its foundations tremble.
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
If he commands it, the sun won’t rise
and the stars won’t shine.
and the stars won’t shine.
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
He alone has spread out the heavens
and marches on the waves of the sea.
and marches on the waves of the sea.
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
He made all the stars — the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.
the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.
Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
He does great things too marvelous to understand.
He performs countless miracles.
He performs countless miracles.
Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
“Yet when he comes near, I cannot see him.
When he moves by, I do not see him go.
When he moves by, I do not see him go.
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
If he snatches someone in death, who can stop him?
Who dares to ask, ‘What are you doing?’
Who dares to ask, ‘What are you doing?’
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
“So who am I, that I should try to answer God
or even reason with him?
or even reason with him?
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Even if I were right, I would have no defense.
I could only plead for mercy.
I could only plead for mercy.
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
And even if I summoned him and he responded,
I’m not sure he would listen to me.
I’m not sure he would listen to me.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
For he attacks me with a storm
and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
He will not let me catch my breath,
but fills me instead with bitter sorrows.
but fills me instead with bitter sorrows.
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
“I am innocent,
but it makes no difference to me —
I despise my life.
but it makes no difference to me —
I despise my life.
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God.
That’s why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
That’s why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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?
The whole earth is in the hands of the wicked,
and God blinds the eyes of the judges.
If he’s not the one who does it, who is?
and God blinds the eyes of the judges.
If he’s not the one who does it, who is?
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
“My life passes more swiftly than a runner.
It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
It disappears like a swift papyrus boat,
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
If I decided to forget my complaints,
to put away my sad face and be cheerful,
to put away my sad face and be cheerful,
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
I would still dread all the pain,
for I know you will not find me innocent, O God.
for I know you will not find me innocent, O God.
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Whatever happens, I will be found guilty.
So what’s the use of trying?
So what’s the use of trying?
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Even if I were to wash myself with soap
and clean my hands with lye,
and clean my hands with lye,
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
you would plunge me into a muddy ditch,
and my own filthy clothing would hate me.
and my own filthy clothing would hate me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
“God is not a mortal like me,
so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
If only there were a mediator between us,
someone who could bring us together.
someone who could bring us together.
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
The mediator could make God stop beating me,
and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment.
and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment.