5. “Without warning, he moves the mountains,overturning them in his anger.
6. He shakes the earth from its place,and its foundations tremble.
7. If he commands it, the sun won’t riseand the stars won’t shine.
8. He alone has spread out the heavensand marches on the waves of the sea.
9. He made all the stars—the Bear and Orion,the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.
10. He does great things too marvelous to understand.He performs countless miracles.
11. “Yet when he comes near, I cannot see him.When he moves by, I do not see him go.
12. If he snatches someone in death, who can stop him?Who dares to ask, ‘What are you doing?’
13. And God does not restrain his anger.Even the monsters of the sea are crushed beneath his feet.
14. “So who am I, that I should try to answer Godor even reason with him?
15. Even if I were right, I would have no defense.I could only plead for mercy.