- 1 (Job Replies: God's Majesty Is Unsearchable) Then Job answered and said:
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"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
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How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
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With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?
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The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
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Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
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He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
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He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
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He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.
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He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
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The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.
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By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
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By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
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Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"