4:5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

9:16If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

9:17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

9:18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

9:19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

9:20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

9:21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

9:22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

9:26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

9:28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

9:29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

9:31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

9:33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

9:34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

9:35Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.