Job 9:1-16

Revised Standard Version

² “Truly I know that it is so:
    But how can a man be just before God?
³ If one wished to contend with him,
    one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength
—who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
⁵ he who removes mountains, and they know it not,
    when he overturns them in his anger;
⁶ who shakes the earth out of its place,
    and its pillars tremble;
⁷ who commands the sun, and it does not rise;
    who seals up the stars;
⁸ who alone stretched out the heavens,
    and trampled the waves of the sea;^[a]
9 who made the Bear and Orion,
    the Plei′ades and the chambers of the south;
¹⁰ who does great things beyond understanding,
    and marvelous things without number.
¹¹ Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not;
    he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
¹² Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him?
    Who will say to him, ‘What doest thou?’