Job’s Reply to Bildad

9:1 Then Job answered:

9:2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

9:3 If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

9:4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength — who has resisted him and remained safe?

9:5 He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

9:6 he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

9:7 he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

9:8 he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea;

9:9 he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the south;

9:10 he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.

9:11 If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

9:12 If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

9:13 God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

The Impossibility of Facing God in Court

9:14 “How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!