1Then Job answered, 2"Truly I know that it is so, 3If he is pleased to contend with him, 4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: 5He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, 6He shakes the earth out of its place. 7He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, 8He alone stretches out the heavens, 9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, 10He does great things past finding out; 11Behold, he goes by me, and I do not see him. 12Behold, he snatches away. 13"God will not withdraw his anger. 14How much less shall I answer him, 15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. 16If I had called, and he had answered me, 17For he breaks me with a storm, 18He will not allow me to catch my breath, 19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! 20Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. 21I am blameless. 22"It is all the same. 23If the scourge kills suddenly, 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. 25"Now my days are swifter than a runner. 26They have passed away as the swift ships, 27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, 28I am afraid of all my sorrows, 29I shall be condemned. 30If I wash myself with snow, 31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. 32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, 33There is no umpire between us, 34Let him take his rod away from me. 35then I would speak, and not fear him,