1 Then Job answered:

2 “Truly I know that it is so:

But how can a man be just before God?

3 If one wished to contend with him,

one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength

—who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

5 he who removes mountains, and they know it not,

when he overturns them in his anger;

6 who shakes the earth out of its place,

and its pillars tremble;

7 who commands the sun, and it does not rise;

who seals up the stars;

8 who alone stretched out the heavens,

and trampled the waves of the sea;q

9 who made the Bear and Orion,

the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;

10 who does great things beyond understanding,

and marvelous things without number.

11 Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not;

he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

12 Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him?

Who will say to him, ‘What doest thou’?

13 “God will not turn back his anger;

beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.