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1 Then Job answered and said:
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Then Job spoke again:
2 “How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
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“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak!
3 How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
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How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered!
4 With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?
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Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you?
5 The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
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“The dead tremble— those who live beneath the waters.
6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
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The underworld is naked in God’s presence. The place of destruction is uncovered.
7 He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
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God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
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He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.
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He covers the face of the moon, shrouding it with his clouds.
10 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
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He created the horizon when he separated the waters; he set the boundary between day and night.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.
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The foundations of heaven tremble; they shudder at his rebuke.
12 By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
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By his power the sea grew calm. By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.
13 By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
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His Spirit made the heavens beautiful, and his power pierced the gliding serpent.
14 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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These are just the beginning of all that he does, merely a whisper of his power. Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?”
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