Job 9:1–13

1  And Job answered and said, 2  Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with •God? 3  If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand. 4  He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace? 5  Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger; 6  Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble; 7  Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars; 8  Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea; 9  Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south; 10  Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number. 11  Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not. 12  Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou? 13  †God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him: