The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Then Iyov replied,
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Then Job made answer and said,
2 "What great help you bring to the powerless! what deliverance to the arm without strength!
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How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
3 Such wonderful advice for a man lacking wisdom! So much common sense you've expressed!
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How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
4 Who helped you to say these words? Whose spirit is it, coming forth from you?
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To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
5 "The ghosts of the dead tremble beneath the water, with its creatures.
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The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
6 Sh'ol is naked before him; Abaddon lies uncovered.
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The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
7 He stretches the north over chaos and suspends the earth on nothing.
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By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
8 He binds up the water in his thick clouds, yet no cloud is torn apart by it.
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By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
9 He shuts off the view of his throne by spreading his cloud across it.
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By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
10 He fixed a circle on the surface of the water, defining the boundary between light and dark.
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By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble, aghast at his rebuke.
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The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his skill he strikes down Rahav.
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By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
13 With his Spirit he spreads the heavens; his hand pierces the fleeing serpent.
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By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
14 And these are but the fringes of his ways; how faint the echo we hear of him! But who is able to grasp the meaning of his thundering power?"
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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.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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