Job 9:1-13
1599 Geneva Bible
9 2 Job declareth the mighty power of God, and that man’s righteousness is nothing.
1 Then Job answered, and said,
2 I know verily that it is so: for how should man compared unto God, be [a]justified?
3 If he would dispute with him, he could not answer him one thing of [b]thousand.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath been fierce against him, and hath prospered?
5 He removeth the mountains, and they feel not when he overthroweth them in his wrath.
6 He [c]removeth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof do shake.
7 He commandeth the Sun, and it riseth not: he closeth up the stars, as under a signet.
8 He himself alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the height of the Sea.
9 He maketh the stars [d]Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.
10 He doeth great things, and unsearchable: yea, marvelous things without number.
11 Lo, when he goeth [e]by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceive him not:
12 Behold, when he taketh a prey, [f]who can make him to restore it? who shall say unto him, What doest thou?
13 God [g]will not withdraw his anger, and the most mighty helpers [h]do stoop under him.
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- Job 9:2 Job here answereth to that point of Eliphaz and Bildad’s oration, touching the justice of God, and his innocency, confessing God to be infinite in justice, and man to be nothing in respect.
- Job 9:3 Of a thousand things, which God could lay to his charge, man cannot answer him one.
- Job 9:6 He declareth what is the infirmity of man, by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do if he would set forth his power.
- Job 9:9 These are the names of certain stars whereby he meaneth that all stars both known and unknown are at his appointment.
- Job 9:11 I am not able to comprehend his works, which are common and daily before my eyes, much less in those things, which are hid and secret.
- Job 9:12 He showeth that when God doth execute his power, he doeth it justly, forasmuch as none can control him.
- Job 9:13 God will not be appeased for ought that man can say for himself for his justification.
- Job 9:13 That is, all the reasons that men can lay to approve their cause.
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