Job 9:4
He is excellent in wisdom, mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3If he choose to contend with him, He cannot answer him to one charge of a thousand.
5He removeth the mountains, and they know it not; He overturneth them in his anger.
Cross References
Job 6:10Yet it should still be my consolation, Yea, in unsparing anguish I would exult, That I have not denied the commands of the Holy One.
Job 11:6That he would show thee the secrets of his wisdom,—His wisdom, which is unsearchable! Then shouldst thou know that God forgiveth thee many of thine iniquities.
Job 15:13For against God hast thou turned thy spirit, And uttered such words from thy mouth.
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 →