1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know of a truth that it is so: For how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord? 3 For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not hearken to him, So that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand. 4 For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: Who has hardened himself against him and endured? 5 Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: Who overturns them in anger. 6 Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, And its pillars totter. 7 Who commands the sun, and it rises not; And he seals up the stars. 8 Who alone has stretched out the heavens, And walks on the sea as on firm ground. 9 Who makes Pleiades, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south. 10 Who does great and unsearchable things; Glorious also and excellent things, innumerable. 11 If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: If he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it]. 12 If he would take away, who shall turn him back? Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done? 13 For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, The whales under heaven have stooped under him. 14 Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause. 15 For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will entreat his judgment. 16 And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice. 17 Let him not crush me with a dark storm: But he has made my bruises many without cause. 18 For he suffers me not to take breath, But he has filled me with bitterness. 19 For indeed he is strong in power: Who then shall resist his judgment? 20 For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse. 21 For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: But my life is taken away. 22 Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man. 23 For the worthless die, But the righteous are laughed to scorn. 24 For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: He covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: But if it be not he, who is it? 25 But my life is swifter than a post: [My days] have fled away, and they knew it not. 26 Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey? 27 And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan; 28 I quake in all my limbs, For I know that thou wilt not leave me alone [as] innocent. 29 But since I am ungodly, why have I not died? 30 For if I should wash myself with snow, And purge myself with pure hands, 31 Thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, And my garment had abhorred me. 32 For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, That we might come together to judgment. 33 Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, And one who should hear [the cause] between both. 34 Let him remove [his] rod from me, And let not his fear terrify me: 35 So shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: For I am not thus conscious [of guilt].
Job · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Job 9 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 4:17; Romans 3:20; Psalm 143:2; Job 25:4; 1 Kings 8:46
- 3 Job 10:2; Job 40:2; 1 John 3:20; 1 John 1:8; Psalm 19:12
- 4 Job 36:5; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Exodus 14:17–18; Job 9:19
- 5 Luke 21:11; Matthew 27:51; Habakkuk 3:10; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:18–20
- 6 Haggai 2:6; Psalm 75:3; Hebrews 12:26; Job 26:11; Isaiah 2:21
- 7 Isaiah 13:10; Amos 8:9; Luke 21:25–26; Job 37:7; Matthew 24:29
- 8 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 104:2–3; Job 37:18; Zechariah 12:1
- 9 Amos 5:8; Genesis 1:16; Job 38:31–41; Psalm 147:4; Acts 28:13
- 10 Job 5:9; Psalm 72:18; Ephesians 3:20; Romans 11:33; Daniel 4:2–3
- 11 Job 23:8–9; Job 35:14; Psalm 77:19; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 12 Job 11:10; Isaiah 45:9; Job 23:13; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35
- 13 Psalm 89:10; Job 26:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 30:7; James 4:6–7
- 14 Job 11:4–5; Job 4:19; Job 9:3; Job 23:7; Job 23:4
- 15 Job 10:15; Job 8:5; Job 22:27; Job 10:2; 1 Peter 2:23
- 16 Exodus 6:9; Psalm 66:18–20; Luke 24:41; Job 29:24; Psalm 18:6
- 17 Job 16:14; Job 2:3; Job 34:6; Job 2:13; Ezekiel 13:13
- 18 Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:15; Hebrews 12:11; Job 3:20; Job 27:2
- 19 Job 9:32–33; Job 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:25; Job 40:9–10; Matthew 6:13
- 20 Psalm 143:2; Job 34:35; Job 9:2; Psalm 130:3; Philippians 3:12–15
- 21 Job 1:1; Psalm 139:23–24; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Job 7:21; Proverbs 28:26
- 22 Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; Job 10:8; Ezekiel 21:3–4; Luke 13:2–4
- 23 Job 24:12; Hebrews 11:36–37; Ezekiel 14:19–21; Job 8:20; Job 2:7
- 24 Job 10:3; Psalm 73:3–7; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:7–15; 2 Samuel 15:30
- 25 Job 7:6–7; James 4:14; Psalm 90:9–10; Psalm 39:5; Esther 8:14
- 26 Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 18:2; Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 4:13; 2 Samuel 1:23
- 27 Job 7:13; Psalm 77:2–3; Job 7:11; Jeremiah 8:18
- 28 Psalm 119:120; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 9:20–21; Job 14:16; Job 10:14
- 29 Job 10:7; Job 10:2; Job 10:14–17; Job 21:16–17; Jeremiah 2:35
- 30 Jeremiah 2:22; Psalm 26:6; 1 John 1:8; Isaiah 1:16–18; Jeremiah 4:14
- 31 Job 15:6; Philippians 3:8–9; Job 9:20; Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 64:6
- 32 Romans 9:20; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 45:9; Numbers 23:19
- 33 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 John 2:1–2; Job 9:19; Psalm 106:23; 1 Kings 3:16–28
- 34 Psalm 39:10; Job 33:7; Job 13:11; Psalm 90:11; Job 13:20–22
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
That which a certain scripture says: "The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly." The flesh was given into the power of the Jews; and this that thereby the bag, as it were, might be rent asunder, whence our purchase-price might run out.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
And this Job said mystically, Which alone spread out the heaven, and walketh upon the sea as on firm ground; signifying to those who understand that He who when present here walked upon the sea is also He who aforetime made the heavens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
"The earth is given into the hands of the wicked." What is meant by "earth" being "given into the hands of the ungodly"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"I slept," because "I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again." "I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again." Rage then the Jews; be "the earth given into the hands of the wicked," be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)