The book of Job . B. 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 I were perfect, yet would I not know my soulI would despise my life. This is one thing, therefore I said destroyeth the perfect and the the scourge slay will laugh at the trial of 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 ?Now my days are swifter
The book of Job . B. 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 I were perfect, yet would I not know my soulI would despise my life. This is one thing, therefore I said destroyeth the perfect and the the scourge slay will laugh at the trial of 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 ?Now my days are swifter than a post:They flee away, they see no are passed away as the swift ships :As the eagle that hasteth to the I say, I will forget my complaint,I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:I am afraid of all my sorrows,I know that thou wilt not hold me I be wicked,Why then labour I in vain ?If I wash myself with snow make my hands never so clean ; THE BOOK OF JOB. 41 1^. C^^^>».^ n;^^ -w^^^^ Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him. And we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both. Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his fear terrify me : 42 THE BOOK OF JOB, Then would I speak, and not fear him ;But it is not so with me. My soul is weary of my life ;I will leave my complaint upon myself,I will speak in the bitterness of my will say unto God, Do not condemn me ;Show me wherefore thou contendest with it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress,That thou shouldest depise the work of thine shine upon the counsel of the wicked ?Hast thou eyes of flesh ?Or seest thou as man seeth ?Are thy days as the days of man ?Are thy years as mans days,That thou inquirest after mine searchest after my sin ?Thou knowest that I am not wicked ;An
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