Job 9:1–13

Job’s Third Speech: A Response to Bildad

9 Thena Job answered and said,

2 “Truly I know that it is so,

butb how can a human being be just before God?

3 If he wants to contend with him,

he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

4 He is wise inc heart and mighty ind strength;

who has resisted him and succeeded?e

5 “He is the one who moves mountains, and they do not know how,

who overturns them in his anger.

6 He is the one who shakes the earth from its place,

and its pillars tremble.

7 He is the one who commands the sun, and it does not rise,

⌊and he seals up the stars⌋.f

8 He is the one who alone stretches out the heavens

and who tramples on the waves of the sea.

9 He is the one who made the Bear and Orion,

the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

10 He is the one who does great things ⌊beyond understanding⌋g

and marvelous things ⌊beyond number⌋.h

11 “⌊If⌋i he passes by me, ⌊I would not see him⌋;j

and if he should move on, ⌊I would not recognize him⌋.k

12 ⌊If⌋l he would snatch away, who could turn him?

Who could say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

13 God will not turn back his anger;

beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow.