Jb 9 (King James)

   ¹ Then Job answered and said, ² I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? ³ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. ⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? ⁵ Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. ⁶ Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. ⁷ Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. ⁸ Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. ⁹ Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. ¹⁰ Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. ¹¹ Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. ¹² Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? ¹³ If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
   ¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? ¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. ¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. ¹⁷ For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. ¹⁸ He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. ¹⁹ If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? ²⁰ If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. ²¹ Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
   ²² This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. ²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 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?
   ²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. ²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: ²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. ²⁹ If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; ³¹ Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. ³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. ³³ Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. ³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: ³⁵ Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

Jb 9 (Vulgate)

   ¹ Et respondens Job, ait :
   ² [Vere scio quod ita sit,
et quod non justificetur homo compositus Deo.
   ³ Si voluerit contendere cum eo,
non poterit ei respondere unum pro mille.
   ⁴ Sapiens corde est, et fortis robore :
quis restitit ei, et pacem habuit ?
   ⁵ Qui transtulit montes, et nescierunt
hi quos subvertit in furore suo.
   ⁶ Qui commovet terram de loco suo,
et columnæ ejus concutiuntur.
   ⁷ Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur,
et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.
   ⁸ Qui extendit cælos solus,
et graditur super fluctus maris.
   ⁹ Qui facit Arcturum et Oriona,
et Hyadas et interiora austri.
   ¹⁰ Qui facit magna, et incomprehensibilia,
et mirabilia, quorum non est numerus.
   ¹¹ Si venerit ad me, non videbo eum ;
si abierit, non intelligam.
   ¹² Si repente interroget, quis respondebit ei ?
vel quis dicere potest : Cur ita facis ?
   ¹³ Deus, cujus iræ nemo resistere potest,
et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem.
   ¹⁴ Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei,
et loquar verbis meis cum eo ?
   ¹⁵ qui etiam si habuero quippiam justum, non respondebo :
sed meum judicem deprecabor.
   ¹⁶ Et cum invocantem exaudierit me,
non credo quod audierit vocem meam.
   ¹⁷ In turbine enim conteret me,
et multiplicabit vulnera mea, etiam sine causa.
   ¹⁸ Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum,
et implet me amaritudinibus.
   ¹⁹ Si fortitudo quæritur, robustissimus est ;
si æquitas judicii, nemo audet pro me testimonium dicere.
   ²⁰ Si justificare me voluero, os meum condemnabit me ;
si innocentem ostendero, pravum me comprobabit.
   ²¹ Etiam si simplex fuero, hoc ipsum ignorabit anima mea,
et tædebit me vitæ meæ.
   ²² Unum est quod locutus sum :
et innocentem et impium ipse consumit.
   ²³ Si flagellat, occidat semel,
et non de pœnis innocentum rideat.
   ²⁴ Terra data est in manus impii ;
vultum judicum ejus operit.
Quod si non ille est, quis ergo est ?
   ²⁵ Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore ;
fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.
   ²⁶ Pertransierunt quasi naves poma portantes ;
sicut aquila volans ad escam.
   ²⁷ Cum dixero : Nequaquam ita loquar :
commuto faciem meam, et dolore torqueor.
   ²⁸ Verebar omnia opera mea,
sciens quod non parceres delinquenti.
   ²⁹ Si autem et sic impius sum,
quare frustra laboravi ?
   ³⁰ Si lotus fuero quasi aquis nivis,
et fulserint velut mundissimæ manus meæ,
   ³¹ tamen sordibus intinges me,
et abominabuntur me vestimenta mea.
   ³² Neque enim viro qui similis mei est, respondebo ;
nec qui mecum in judicio ex æquo possit audiri.
   ³³ Non est qui utrumque valeat arguere,
et ponere manum suam in ambobus.
   ³⁴ Auferat a me virgam suam,
et pavor ejus non me terreat.
   ³⁵ Loquar, et non timebo eum ;
neque enim possum metuens respondere.]