Job 9:1–13

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD

9 Then Job answered:

2 Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,

but how can a person be justified before God?ac

3 If one wanted to takead him to court,

he could not answer GodE once in a thousand times.a

4 God is wiseb and all-powerful.

Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?

5 He removes mountains without their knowledge,

overturning them in his anger.c

6 He shakes the earth from its place

so that its pillars tremble.

7 He commands the sun not to shine

and seals off the stars.d

8 He alone stretches out the heavense

and treads on the waves of the sea.A

9 He makes the stars: the Bear,B Orion,

the Pleiades,f and the constellationsC of the southern sky.

10 He does great and unsearchable things,

wonders without number.g

11 If he passed by me, I wouldn’t see him;h

if he went by, I wouldn’t recognize him.

12 If he snatches something, who can stopD him?

Who can ask him, “What are you doing?”i

13 God does not hold back his anger;

Rahab’sj assistants cringe in fear beneath him!