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Job 9: Job Says No Umpire Stands Between Us

Job agrees that God is just, but asks how a man can be just with God. He praises God, who removes mountains, shakes the earth, stretches out the heavens, treads on the waves of the sea, and made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades. Yet Job feels he cannot answer God, and he wishes there were an umpire between them who could lay his hand on them both.

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  1. 1 Then Job answered,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  2. 2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  3. 3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  4. 4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  5. 5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  6. 6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  7. 7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  8. 8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  9. 9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  10. 10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  11. 11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  12. 12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  13. 13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  14. 14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  15. 15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  16. 16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  17. 17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  18. 18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  19. 19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  20. 20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  21. 21 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  22. 22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  23. 23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  24. 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  25. 25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  26. 26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  27. 27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  28. 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  29. 29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  30. 30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  31. 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  32. 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  33. 33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  34. 34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  35. 35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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God Made the Stars

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Color the stars in the night sky! God made them all.

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Bible Verse

“He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.”

Job 9:9 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

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Read the verse aloud. Say: God made the stars in the sky. God is very great and strong. We can praise God for the stars.

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