The Bible in Basic English BBE
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1 Then Job made answer and said,
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Then Job replied:
2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
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“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
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What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
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Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
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“The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
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The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.
7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
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He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
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He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
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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 shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
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The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.
12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
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By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
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By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
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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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