² “Indeed, I know that this is so,
    but how can a mortal be just before God?
³ If one wished to contend with him,
    one could not answer him once in a thousand.
⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength;
    who has resisted him and succeeded?
⁵ He removes mountains, and they do not know it
    when he overturns them in his anger;
⁶ he shakes the earth out of its place,
    and its pillars tremble;
⁷ he commands the sun, and it does not rise;
    he seals up the stars;
⁸ he alone stretched out the heavens
    and trampled the waves of the Sea;^[a]
9 he made the Bear and Orion,
    the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
¹⁰ he does great things beyond understanding
    and marvelous things without number.