What does Job Chapter 9 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Job answers Baldad by acknowledging what he says he knows: no mortal man can be justified when compared with God. If any person attempted to debate the Almighty in judgment, he could not answer one divine question out of a thousand. God is sovereignly wise in heart and invincible in strength, and no one has ever resisted Him and found peace. He overturns mountains without warning in His wrath, shakes the earth until its supporting pillars tremble, commands the sun not to rise, and seals up the stars in the heavens. By His sole authority He stretches out the heavens, walks upon the waves of the sea, and creates constellations such as Arcturus, Orion, and the Hyades, along with the hidden chambers of the south. As the Challoner annotation explains, these names designate specific stars or constellations, rendered in Hebrew as Ash, Cesil, and Cimah. God performs wondrous, incomprehensible deeds beyond human counting.

In Job’s continuing speech, Job laments that if God passes by, human eyes cannot perceive Him, and if He departs, human understanding cannot grasp His movements. Job asks who could answer God if He examines suddenly, or ask why He does so. His anger is unyielding, causing even those who bear up the world to bow down. Considering this overwhelming majesty, Job asks how a fragile mortal like himself could dare to dispute with Him or choose fitting words. Even if Job possessed justice on his side, he would not venture to plead his merits; instead, he would simply offer humble supplication to his Judge. Moreover, even if God answered when called, Job could scarcely believe the Almighty had truly listened to his voice, for God shall crush him in a whirlwind and multiply his wounds without cause. The Challoner commentary clarifies that "without cause" means without Job knowing the reason or without any crime committed on his part. God gives Job's spirit no rest and saturates him with bitterness.

In Job’s continuing speech, if the issue is sheer power, God is supremely strong; if it is legal fairness, no advocate dares testify in Job's defense. Were Job to attempt to justify himself, his own mouth would condemn him; if he claimed complete innocence, God would prove him perverse. Even if Job were innocent in his soul, he would remain bewildered and weary of his life. Job says one thing he has spoken: God consumes both the innocent and the wicked. He asks that if God scourges, He kill at once and not laugh at the pains of the innocent, while the earth is given over into the hands of the wicked and the eyes of its judges are veiled. Job asks, if it is not He, who is it?

In Job’s continuing speech, Job describes his fleeting life as vanishing faster than a swift runner, fleeing away without seeing prosperity, and gliding past like ships carrying fruits or an eagle diving upon its prey. If he attempts to say he will not speak so and change his expression, he says he is tormented with sorrow. Knowing that God does not spare the offender, Job fears all his works, wondering why he labors in vain if he is already treated as guilty. Even if he washed himself thoroughly with snow waters and cleansed his hands until they shone, God would plunge him into filth until his own clothes abhorred him. God is not a mortal peer whom Job could meet on equal terms in court, nor is there one able to reprove both and put his hand between them both. Job pleads that God would remove His punishing rod and withdraw His terror, so that Job might speak without dread, for while paralyzed by fear he cannot present his defense.