Job’s Reply to Bildad67

9:1 Then Job answered:

9:2 “Truly,1 I know that this is so.

But how2 can a human3 be just before4 God?5

9:3 If someone wishes6 to contend7 with him,

he cannot answer8 him one time in a thousand.

9:4 He is wise in heart9 and mighty10 in strength11—

who has resisted12 him and remained safe?13

9:5 He who removes mountains suddenly,14

who overturns them in his anger;15

9:6 he who shakes the earth out of its place16

so that its pillars tremble;17

9:7 he who commands the sun and18 it does not shine19

and seals up20 the stars;

9:8 he alone spreads out the heavens,

and treads21 on the waves of the sea;22

9:9 he makes the Bear,23 Orion,24 and the Pleiades,25

and the constellations of the southern sky;26

9:10 he does great and unsearchable things,27

and wonderful things without number.

9:11 If28 he passes by me, I cannot see29 him,30

if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.31

9:12 If he snatches away,32 who can turn him back?33

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

9:13 God does not restrain his anger;34

under him the helpers of Rahab35 lie crushed.36