Summary
Job’s views on the Almighty God
Job 9:1,3-21
1 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 questions that no one could ever answer.
[4]God is so wise and powerful; no one can stand up against him.
[5]Without warning he moves mountains and 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 heavens or 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 enemies who 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 do is 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.
[17]He sends storms to batter and bruise me without any reason at all.
[18]He won’t let me get my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness.
[19]Should I try force? Try force on God? Should I take him to court? Could anyone make him go?
[20]I am innocent and faithful, but my words sound guilty, and everything I say seems to condemn me.
21 I am innocent, but I no longer care. I am sick of living. Nothing matters; innocent or guilty, God will destroy us.