Job 9
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Job 9:2-12

2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

3If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

5He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

6he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

9he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;

10he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.

11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

12If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

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