Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 What a big help you are to me -
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Then Job answered:
2 poor, weak man that I am!
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"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
3 You give such good advice and share your knowledge with a fool like me!
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How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 Who do you think will hear all your words? Who inspired you to speak like this?
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With whose help have you uttered words, and whose spirit has come forth from you?
5 The spirits of the dead tremble in the waters under the earth.
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The shades below tremble, the waters and their inhabitants.
6 The world of the dead lies open to God; no covering shields it from his sight.
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Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.
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He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 It is God who fills the clouds with water and keeps them from bursting with the weight.
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He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
9 He hides the full moon behind a cloud.
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He covers the face of the moon, and spreads over it his cloud.
10 He divided light from darkness by a circle drawn on the face of the sea.
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He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 When he threatens the pillars that hold up the sky, they shake and tremble with fear.
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The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.
12 It is his strength that conquered the sea; by his skill he destroyed the monster Rahab.
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By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he smote Rahab.
13 It is his breath that made the sky clear, and his hand that killed the escaping monster.
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By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?
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Lo, 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?"
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.