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Job 9:5

Verse 5 of 35. The 9th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Then Job answered,

2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.