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Job 9:26

Verse 26 of 35. The 9th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’

28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.

29I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.