1. Then Job replied:
2. ‘Indeed, I know that this is true.But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
3. Though they wished to dispute with him,they could not answer him once in a thousand times.
4. His wisdom is profound, his power is vast.Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
5. He moves mountains without their knowing itand overturns them in his anger.
6. He shakes the earth from its placeand makes its pillars tremble.
7. He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;he seals off the light of the stars.
8. He alone stretches out the heavensand treads on the waves of the sea.
9. He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.