1. And Job, responding, said:
2. Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.
3. If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.
4. He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?
5. He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it.
6. He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble.
7. He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.
8. He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.
9. He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.