1Then Job answered and said:
2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
3How you have counseled one who has no wisdom, and made sound insight known in abundance!
4With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has gone out from you?
5The departed spirits tremble beneath the waters, and those dwelling in them.
6Sheol is naked before him, and Abaddon has no covering.
7He stretches out the north over the void, hanging the earth upon nothing.
8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, yet the cloud does not burst beneath them.
9He covers the face of the throne, spreading his cloud over it.
10He has inscribed a circle upon the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.
11The pillars of the heavens tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.
12By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
13By his breath the heavens were made bright; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14Behold, these are but the fringes of his ways, and what a faint whisper of him we hear! But the thunder of his might—who can comprehend?
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