His wisdom(A) is profound, his power is vast.(B)
    Who has resisted(C) him and come out unscathed?(D)
He moves mountains(E) without their knowing it
    and overturns them in his anger.(F)
He shakes the earth(G) from its place
    and makes its pillars tremble.(H)
He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;(I)
    he seals off the light of the stars.(J)
He alone stretches out the heavens(K)
    and treads on the waves of the sea.(L)
He is the Maker(M) of the Bear[a] and Orion,
    the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.(N)
10 He performs wonders(O) that cannot be fathomed,
    miracles that cannot be counted.(P)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:9 Or of Leo

31 “Can you bind the chains[a] of the Pleiades?
    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?(A)
32 Can you bring forth the constellations(B) in their seasons[b]
    or lead out the Bear[c] with its cubs?(C)
33 Do you know the laws(D) of the heavens?(E)
    Can you set up God’s[d] dominion over the earth?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:31 Septuagint; Hebrew beauty
  2. Job 38:32 Or the morning star in its season
  3. Job 38:32 Or out Leo
  4. Job 38:33 Or their

There are those who turn justice into bitterness(A)
    and cast righteousness(B) to the ground.(C)

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,(D)
    who turns midnight into dawn(E)
    and darkens day into night,(F)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.(G)

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