New American Bible, Revised Edition

Job 9:30-35 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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

31. Yet you would plunge me in the ditch,so that my garments would abhor me.

32. For he is not a man like myself, that I should answer him,that we should come together in judgment.

33. Would that there were an arbiter between us,who could lay his hand upon us both

34. and withdraw his rod from me,So that his terrors did not frighten me;

35. that I might speak without being afraid of him.Since this is not the case with me,