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