9:25 “My days 1 are swifter than a runner, 2
they speed by without seeing happiness.
9:26 They glide by 3 like reed 4 boats,
like an eagle that swoops 5 down on its prey. 6
9:27 If I say, 7 ‘I will 8 forget my complaint,
I will change my expression 9 and be cheerful,’ 10
9:28 I dread 11 all my sufferings, 12
for 13 I know that you do not hold me blameless. 14
9:29 If I am guilty, 15
why then 16 weary myself 17 in vain? 18
9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, 19
and make my hands clean with lye, 20
9:31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit 21
and my own clothes abhor me.
9:32 For he 22 is not a human being like I am,
that 23 I might answer him,
that we might come 24 together in judgment.
9:33 Nor is there an arbiter 25 between us,
who 26 might lay 27 his hand on us both, 28
9:34 who 29 would take his 30 rod 31 away from me
so that his terror 32 would not make me afraid.
9:35 Then 33 would I speak and not fear him,
but it is not so with me. 34