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Berean Study Bible

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1Then Job answered:

1Then Job replied:

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

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

3How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

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

4To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

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

5The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

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

6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

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

7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

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

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

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

9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

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

10He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

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

11The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

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

12By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

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

13By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

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

14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

14And 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?"