1. And Job answered and said,
2. Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with ·God
3. If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?
5. Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;
6. Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;
7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;
8. Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;
9. Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
10. Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number.
11. Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.
12. Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
13. +God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:
14. How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words to strive with him?
15. Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
16. If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, --