If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.

whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace.

If he tears down, then it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then he cannot be freed.

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

If his days [are] determined, the number of his months [is] with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross [them].

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?

{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?

or [it is so] dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

"When I go forward, {he is not there}, or backward, I cannot see him.

{When he works} [on the] left, {I cannot perceive} [him]; he turns to [the] right, but I cannot see [him].

Yet he carries off [the] tyrants by his strength; [if] he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life.

"Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out [as] its price.

It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire.

Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution [cannot be] an ornament of refined gold.

The topaz of Cush cannot be compared with it; it cannot be bought for pure gold.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

teach me yourself {what I cannot see}; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat [it]'?

"God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.

"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.

[As for] Shaddai, we cannot attain him; [he is] exalted [in] power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.

It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.

With roar and rage {it races over the ground}, and it cannot stand still at [the] sound of [the] horn.

They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.

They are joined {one to another}; they cling together and cannot be separated.