The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
1 And Job answered and said,
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Then Job replied:
2 How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!
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“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!
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What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
4 For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
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Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5 The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;
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“The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
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The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.
7 He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
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He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it.
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He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
10 He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.
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He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
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The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.
12 He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.
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By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13 By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent.
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By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14 Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?
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And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
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