15 For though I were just, yet could I [a]not answer, but I would make supplication to my Judge.

16 If I [b]cry, and he answer me, yet would I not believe, that he heard my voice.

17 For he destroyeth me with a tempest, and woundeth me [c]without cause.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:15 Meaning, in his own opinion, signifying, that man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous, which before God is abomination.
  2. Job 9:16 While I am in my pangs, I cannot but burst forth into many inconveniences, although I know still that God is just.
  3. Job 9:17 I am not able to feel my sins so great, as I feel the weight of his plagues; and this he speaketh to condemn his dullness, and to justify God.

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