2. “Truly I know that it is so, but how can a human being be just before God?
3. If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?
5. “He is the one who moves mountains, and they do not know how, who overturns them in his anger.
6. He is the one who shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars tremble.
7. He is the one who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and he seals up the stars.
8. He is the one who alone stretches out the heavens and who tramples on the waves of the sea.
9. He is the one who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
10. He is the one who does great things beyond understanding and marvelous things beyond number.
11. “If he passes by me, I would not see him; and if he should move on, I would not recognize him.
12. If he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13. God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow.
14. How much less can I myself answer him? How can I choose my words with him,
15. whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace.
16. If I summon him, and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice—
17. who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18. He will not allow me to catch my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness.