Job 9:4
God is so wise and so powerful that no one could challenge him and win.
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3If you wanted to argue with God, God could ask a thousand questions that no one could answer.
5God moves the mountains suddenly; he overturns them in his anger.
Cross References
Exodus 9:14This time I will direct all my plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you will realize that there is no one like me in all the earth.
Exodus 14:17I will give the Egyptians a stubborn, hard-hearted attitude so that they will chase in after them. Then I will gain respect through what happens to Pharaoh and all his army, chariots, and horsemen.
2 Chronicles 13:12God is leading us! His priests blow their trumpets to go into battle against you. People of Israel, don't fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you won't win!”
Job 6:10But it still comforts me to know, making me happy through the never-ending pain, that I have never rejected the words of God.
Job 11:6because then he would explain to you the secrets of wisdom. True wisdom has many sides to it. God's treatment of you is far better than your guilt deserves.
Job 15:13Why do your eyes flash in anger that you turn against God and let yourself speak this way?
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →