Job 26
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Then Job replied:
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“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!
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How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!
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To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?
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“The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
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The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.
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He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
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He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.
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He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.
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The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.
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By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.
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By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
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Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”