Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
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1 But Job answered and said,
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Then Job replied:
2 To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist? is it not he that much strength, and who has a strong arm?
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“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 To whom hast thou given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom wilt thou follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?
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What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from thee?
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Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5 Shall giants be born from under the water 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 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
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The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.
7 He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
8 binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not rent under it.
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He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.
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He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
10 He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end 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 heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke.
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The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.
12 He has calmed the sea with might, and by wisdom the whale has been overthrown.
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By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13 And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.
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By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14 Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will hearken to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ ?
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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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