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