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¹ Then Job replied:

² “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

³ What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!

⁴ Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

⁵ “The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

⁶ The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction[41] lies uncovered.

⁷ He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

⁸ He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

⁹ He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.

¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹ The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.

¹² By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

¹³ By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

¹⁴ 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?”

#	NIV 11
1	Then Job replied:
2	“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3	What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
4	Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5	“The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6	The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction[41] lies uncovered.
7	He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
8	He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9	He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
10	He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
11	The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.
12	By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13	By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14	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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