1. Job responded:
2. I know for certain that this is so;and how can anyone be innocent before God?
3. If one wants to contend with him,he won’t answer one in a thousand.
4. He is wise and powerful;who can resist him and prosper?
5. Who removes mountains, and they are unaware;who overthrows them in anger?
6. Who shakes the earth from its place,and its pillars shudder?
7. Who commands the sun, and it does not rise,even seals up the stars;
8. stretched out the heavens aloneand trod on the waves of the Sea;
9. made the Bear and Orion, Pleiadesand the southern constellations;
10. does great and unsearchable things,wonders beyond number?
11. If God goes by me, I can’t see him;he glides past, and I can’t perceive him.
12. If he seizes, who can bring back?Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
13. God won’t retract his anger;the helpers of Rahab bow beneath him.
14. Yet I myself will answer him;I’ll choose my words in a contest with him.