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Job 26

1 Then Job replied:

1 What a big help you are to me -

2 “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

2 poor, weak man that I am!

3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!

3 You give such good advice and share your knowledge with a fool like me!

4 Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

4 Who do you think will hear all your words? Who inspired you to speak like this?

5 “The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

5 The spirits of the dead tremble in the waters under the earth.

6 The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.

6 The world of the dead lies open to God; no covering shields it from his sight.

7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

7 God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.

8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

8 It is God who fills the clouds with water and keeps them from bursting with the weight.

9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.

9 He hides the full moon behind a cloud.

10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.

10 He divided light from darkness by a circle drawn on the face of the sea.

11 The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.

11 When he threatens the pillars that hold up the sky, they shake and tremble with fear.

12 By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

12 It is his strength that conquered the sea; by his skill he destroyed the monster Rahab.

13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

13 It is his breath that made the sky clear, and his hand that killed the escaping monster.

14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”

14 But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?