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26. Job Replies

    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 Hebrew Abaddon 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?”