Good News Bible

Job 9:1-2-16 Good News Bible (GNB)

1-2. Yes, I've heard all that before.But how can a human being win a case against God?

3. How can anyone argue with him?He can ask a thousand questionsthat no one could ever answer.

4. God is so wise and powerful;no one can stand up against him.

5. Without warning he moves mountainsand in anger he destroys them.

6. God sends earthquakes and shakes the ground;he rocks the pillars that support the earth.

7. He can keep the sun from rising,and the stars from shining at night.

8. No one helped God spread out the heavensor trample the sea monster's back.

9. God hung the stars in the sky — the Great Bear,Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south.

10. We cannot understand the great things he does,and to his miracles there is no end.

11. God passes by, but I cannot see him.

12. He takes what he wants, and no one can stop him;no one dares ask him, “What are you doing?”

13. God's anger is constant. He crushed his enemieswho helped Rahab, the sea monster, oppose him.

14. So how can I find words to answer God?

15. Though I am innocent, all I can dois beg for mercy from God my judge.

16. Yet even then, if he lets me speak,I can't believe he would listen to me.