91 Then Job answered, 2 “Truly I know that it is so,
but how can man be just with God? 3 If he is pleased to contend with him,
he can’t answer him one time in a thousand. 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:
who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? 5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
when he overturns them in his anger. 6 He shakes the earth out of its place.
Its pillars tremble. 7 He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise,
and seals up the stars. 8 He alone stretches out the heavens,
and treads on the waves of the sea. 9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
and the chambers of the south. 10 He does great things past finding out;
yes, marvelous things without number. 11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him. 12 Behold, he snatches away.
Who can hinder him?
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’ 13 “God will not withdraw his anger.
The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 9:1-13
Commentary on Job 9:1-13
(Read Job 9:1-13)
In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, he forgets his complaints. We are unfit to judge of God's proceedings, because we know not what he does, or what he designs. God acts with power which no creature can resist. Those who think they have strength enough to help others, will not be able to help themselves against it.