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Then Job replied: |
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"How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! |
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What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed! |
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Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth? |
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"The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. |
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Death is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered. |
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. |
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He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. |
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He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. |
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He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness. |
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The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke. |
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By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces. |
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By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent. |
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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?" |
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