18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not
know my soul: I would
despise
my life.
18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it,
He destroyeth the
perfect
and the wicked.
18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh
at the trial of
the
innocent.
18:009:024 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?
18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post:
they flee away, they see
no
good.
18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships:
as the eagle that
hasteth
to the prey.
18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I
will leave off my
heaviness,
and comfort myself:
18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that
thou wilt not hold
me
innocent.
18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make
my hands never so
clean;
18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,
and mine own clothes
shall
abhor me.
18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should
answer him, and we
should
come together in judgment.
18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,
that might lay his
hand
upon us both.
18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and
let not his fear
terrify
me:
18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but
it is not so with
me.
18:010:001 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave
my complaint upon
myself;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
18:010:002 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;
shew me wherefore thou
contendest
with me.
18:010:003 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest
oppress, that thou
shouldest
despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the
counsel
of the wicked?
18:010:004 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
18:010:005 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
18:010:006 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity,
and searchest after
my
sin?
18:010:007 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and
there is none that can
deliver
out of thine hand.
18:010:008 Thine hands have made me and fashioned
me together round
about;
yet thou dost destroy me.
18:010:009 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast
made me as the clay;
and
wilt thou bring me into dust again?
18:010:010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and
curdled me like
cheese?
18:010:011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh,
and hast fenced me
with
bones and sinews.


