Job 9

¹And Job answered and said,

²Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?

³If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.

⁴He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?

⁵Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;

⁶Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;

⁷Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;

⁸Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;

⁹Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

¹⁰Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number.

¹¹Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.

¹²Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

¹³God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:

¹⁴How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?

¹⁵Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, —