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Then Job answered and said,

Of a truth I know that it is so:
[a]But how can man be just [b]with God?
[c]If he be pleased to contend with him,
He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:
Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?—
Him that removeth the mountains, and they know it not,
When he overturneth them in his anger;
That shaketh the earth out of its place,
And the pillars thereof tremble;
That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not,
And sealeth up the stars;
That alone stretcheth out the heavens,
And treadeth upon the [d]waves of the sea;
That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
And the chambers of the south;
10 That doeth great things past finding out,
Yea, marvellous things without number.
11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not:
He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
12 Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can [e]hinder him?
Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

13 God will not withdraw his anger;
The helpers of [f]Rahab [g]do stoop under him.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:2 Or, For
  2. Job 9:2 Or, before
  3. Job 9:3 Or, If one should desire . . . He could not etc.
  4. Job 9:8 Hebrew high places.
  5. Job 9:12 Or, turn him back
  6. Job 9:13 Or, arrogancy. See Isa. 30:7.
  7. Job 9:13 Or, did