The Search for a Mediator

Job 9:25-35

My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine?

If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,

Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.

For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.