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            New International Version NIV
          
            
              1 Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
            
            
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Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:            
            
              2 “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
            
            
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“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?            
            
              3 Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
            
            
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Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.            
            
              4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
            
            
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“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.            
            
              5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
            
            
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Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?            
            
              6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—
            
            
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On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—            
            
              7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
            
            
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while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?            
            
              8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
            
            
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“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,            
            
              9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
            
            
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when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,            
            
              10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
            
            
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when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,            
            
              11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?
            
            
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when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?            
          
            
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