Job 9:1-13

Christian Standard Bible

² Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,
but how can a person be justified before God?^(A)
3 If one wanted to take^(B) him to court,
he could not answer God^[a] once in a thousand times.^(C)
4 God is wise^(D) and all-powerful.
Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?
⁵ He removes mountains without their knowledge,
overturning them in his anger.^(E)
6 He shakes the earth from its place
so that its pillars tremble.
⁷ He commands the sun not to shine
and seals off the stars.^(F)
8 He alone stretches out the heavens^(G)
and treads on the waves of the sea.^[b]
9 He makes the stars: the Bear,^[c] Orion,
the Pleiades,^(H) and the constellations^[d] of the southern sky.
¹⁰ He does great and unsearchable things,
wonders without number.^(I)
11 If he passed by me, I wouldn’t see him;^(J)
if he went by, I wouldn’t recognize him.
¹² If he snatches something, who can stop^[e] him?
Who can ask him, “What are you doing?” ^(K)
13 God does not hold back his anger;
Rahab’s^(L) assistants cringe in fear beneath him!