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1 Then Job made answer and said,
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6 But Iyov answered and said,
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 hast thou helped him that is without ko’ach? How savest thou the zero’a that hath no oz (strength)?
3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
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How hast thou counseled him that hath no chochmah? And how hast thou plentifully declared the tushiyyah (efficient wisdom)?
4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
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To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose neshamah came from thee?
5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
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Dead things tremble from under the mayim, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
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Sheol is naked before Him, and Avaddon hath no cover.
7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
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He stretcheth out the Tzafon over the tohu, and hangeth eretz upon 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 bindeth up the mayim in His thick clouds; and the anan doeth not burst under them.
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 [His] kisse, and spreadeth His anan upon 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 hath circled the horizon on the face of the mayim for a boundary between ohr and choshech.
11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
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The ammudim of Shomayim tremble and are aghast at His rebuke.
12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
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He divideth the yam with His ko’ach, and by His understanding He struck down Rahav.
13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
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By His Ruach He hath made fair Shomayim; His yad hath pierced the fleeing nachash.
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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Lo, these are but the ketzot of His ways, but how faint the davar we hear of Him. And the thunder of His gevurah who can understand?
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