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Listen to this chapter • 1:28

[1] Then Job answered:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[14] Indeed, 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?”

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