The Book of JOB - Chapter Twenty Six

 

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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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The realm of the dead 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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The Book Of JOB

Chapter Twenty Six

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