Job 9:14 says, How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?  After speaking about the power and majesty of God, Job now begins to speak of his own inability to talk to God with any words that could justify himself before God.  If we attempt to claim that we are perfect and God has treated us unfairly, our very words show our hypocrisy.  Job had been accused of being a hypocrite by Bildad, but Job acknowledged his unworthiness to even answer God.  Job was not claiming to be perfect and therefore able to stand before God by his own righteousness, but asked how he could hope to choose the right words to reason with God.  We can never question the wisdom of God because we feel that we are righteous in all that we do.  Verse fifteen adds, Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.  Job said that even if he could claim righteousness, he could still not make demands on God.  He could only come to God in supplication, asking God to hear Him.  We can never make demands on God but must come to Him as humble servants.  Verse sixteen continues, If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.  Job felt that his prayers were so ineffective that even if God did what he was asking it wouldn't be due to his prayers.  I believe Job felt at this point that God was just going to do what He wanted to do when He wanted to do it.  This made God an impersonal God, but we know that is not the case.  God always hears and answers the prayers of His people.  We may not like the answer, nor even the timing of the answer, but we can never believe that God does not hear us.  If we believe that everything is preordained, then we must say as Job did that our prayers do not matter.  Verse seventeen states, For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.  Job stated his reason for believing that God did not hear Him.  Job said God was causing him unbearable suffering without cause.  No matter how much we suffer, we can never blame God nor claim that we are without any guilt in our lives.  Job was now basically saying aloud that God was being unjust with Him.  Verse eighteen adds, He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.  I believe that Job was basically saying that God was responsible for his bitterness.  If we become bitter in our attitude toward God today, we cannot blame it on God.  We cannot even blame it on the devil, because we alone are responsible for our attitude toward God.  Events in this world should never determine our attitude toward God, but we must remain faithful to Him no matter what.  Verse nineteen continues, If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?  Job acknowledged the power of God.  He felt powerless in God's sight. Our strength and wisdom are indeed powerless in God's sight, but through faith in Him, we are made strong.  Verse twenty says, If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.  Job said he could not justify himself with his words, and that if he said he was perfect that even his speech would be perverse.  If a person claims to be able to stand before God today innocent by their own ability, then what they are saying is perverse.  We cannot make ourselves right with God by our own actions but can only do so by faith in God's redeeming act.  Through acknowledgement of our own sins and faith in Christ alone can we be restored to a right relationship with God.  Verse twenty-one adds, Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.  Job said that even if he had been perfect, in his present condition he would despise his soul.  In his suffering, Job could see no reason for even his soul, the animating force of life, to live on.  Verse twenty-two continues, This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.  Those that are perfect, though there really is but One, and those that are wicked do all meet the same fate in this life, and that is they all die.  I believe Job was stating this as an indictment against God though.  He was blaming God for evil coming to good people, but we must remember that God is not responsible for the evil in the world.