The Book of Job, Chapter 9, Verse 25

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?

King James Version

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

American Standard Version

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,

New English Translation

Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

World English Bible

"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.