9. He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,and the rooms of the south.
10. He does great things past finding out;yes, marvellous things without number.
11. Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
12. Behold, he snatches away.Who can hinder him?Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
13. “God will not withdraw his anger.The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14. How much less shall I answer him,And choose my words to argue with him?
15. Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.I would make supplication to my judge.
16. If I had called, and he had answered me,yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17. For he breaks me with a storm,and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18. He will not allow me to catch my breath,but fills me with bitterness.
19. If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20. Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me.Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
21. I am blameless.I don’t respect myself.I despise my life.
22. “It is all the same.Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23. If the scourge kills suddenly,he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.He covers the faces of its judges.If not he, then who is it?