Job 9:5
Good News Translation
Without warning he moves mountains and in anger he destroys them.

New Revised Standard Version
he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger;

Contemporary English Version
When God becomes angry, he can move mountains before they even know it.

New American Bible
He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.

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Job 28:9 He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.

Psalm 46:2 Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea.

Psalm 68:8 The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

Psalm 114:6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?

Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Habakkuk 3:6,10 He stood and measured the earth. He beheld, and melted the nations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of the world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity. . . .

Zechariah 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zorobabel? thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring out the chief stone, and shall give equal grace to the grace thereof.

Matthew 21:21 And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you shall have faith and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast thyself into the sea, it shall be done.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a book folded up. And every mountain, and the islands, were moved out of their places.

Revelation 11:13 And at that hour there was made a great earthquake: and the tenth part of the city fell. And there were slain in the earthquake, names of men, seven thousand: and the rest were cast into a fear and gave glory to the God of heaven.

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Numbers 1:5,6 Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur. . . .

Zechariah 14:4,5 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south. . . .

Matthew 27:51 And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent.

Luke 21:11 And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places and pestilences and famines and terrors from heaven: and there shall be great signs.

Revelation 16:18-20 And there were lightnings and voices and thunders: and there was a great earthquake, such an one as never had been since men were upon the earth, such an earthquake, so great. . . .

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace? 5Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.…
Cross References
Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

Job 28:9
He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.

Job 34:25
For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed.

Job 41:11
Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.

Job 9:4
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