June 26, 2025, Job 9:1-35
9 Then Job
answered and said:
2 “Truly I
know that it is so:
But how
can a man be in the right before God?
3 If one wished to contend with him,
one
could not answer him once in a thousand times.
4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength
—who
has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
5 he who removes mountains, and they know it not,
when he
overturns them in his anger,
6 who shakes the earth out of its place,
and its
pillars tremble;
7 who commands the sun, and it does not rise;
who
seals up the stars;
8 who alone stretched out the heavens
and
trampled the waves of the sea;
9 who made the Bear and Orion,
the
Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
10 who does great things beyond searching out,
and
marvelous things beyond number.
11 Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not;
he moves
on, but I do not perceive him.
12 Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back?
Who will
say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 “God
will not turn back his anger;
beneath
him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
14 How then can I answer him,
choosing
my words with him?
15 Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him;
I
must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
16 If I summoned him and he answered me,
I would
not believe that he was listening to my voice.
17 For he crushes me with a tempest
and
multiplies my wounds without cause;
18 he will not let me get my breath,
but
fills me with bitterness.
19 If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is
mighty!
If it is
a matter of justice, who can summon him?
20 Though I am in the right, my own mouth would
condemn me;
though I
am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21 I am blameless; I regard not myself;
I loathe
my life.
22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys
both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 When disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks
at the calamity of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers
the faces of its judges—
if it is
not he, who then is it?
25 “My days
are swifter than a runner;
they
flee away; they see no good.
26 They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an
eagle swooping on the prey.
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will
put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’
28 I become afraid of all my suffering,
for I
know you will not hold me innocent.
29 I shall be condemned;
why then
do I labor in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow
and cleanse
my hands with lye,
31 yet you will plunge me into a pit,
and my
own clothes will abhor me.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer
him,
that we
should come to trial together.
33 There is no arbiter between us,
who
might lay his hand on us both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me,
and
let not dread of him terrify me.
35 Then I would speak without fear of him,
for I am
not so in myself.
This
passage makes me wonder if it is possible to ever win an argument with God?
Have you
had any success winning an argument with God?
I can’t say that I have!
Debbie Walker
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