1 Then Job answered,
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2 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
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3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!
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4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
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5 "Those who are deceased tremble, Those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
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6 Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon has no covering.
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7 He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.
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8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.
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9 He encloses the face of his throne, And spreads his cloud on it.
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10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, And to the confines of light and darkness.
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11 The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.
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12 He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
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13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
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14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
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