Job 9:23-32 New International Version (NIV)

23. When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

24. When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

25. “My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.

26. They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

27. If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,’

28. I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

29. Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?

30. Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder,

31. you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.

32. “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.

Job 9