English Standard Version

Job 9:27-32 English Standard Version (ESV)

27. If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’

28. I become afraid of all my suffering,for I know you will not hold me innocent.

29. I shall be condemned;why then do I labor in vain?

30. If I wash myself with snowand cleanse my hands with lye,

31. yet you will plunge me into a pit,and my own clothes will abhor me.

32. For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,that we should come to trial together.