Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
English Standard Version ESV
1 Then Job answered:
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Then Job answered and said:
2 How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak!
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“How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
3 How you have counseled the unwise and thoroughly explained [the path to] success!
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How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 Who did you speak these words to? Whose breath came out of your [mouth]?
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With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?
5 The departed spirits tremble beneath the waters and [all] that inhabit them.
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The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
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Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 He stretches the northern [skies] over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
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He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He enfolds the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.
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He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
9 He obscures the view of [His] throne, spreading His cloud over it.
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He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.
10 He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
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He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars [that hold up] the sky tremble, astounded at His rebuke.
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The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.
12 By His power He stirred the sea, and by His understanding He crushed Rahab.
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By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
13 By His breath the heavens gained their beauty; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
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By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 These are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the word we hear of Him! Who can understand His mighty thunder?
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Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand? ”
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