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Listen to this chapter • 1:19

[1] Then Job spoke again:

[2] “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak!

[3] How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered!

[4] Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you?

[5] “The dead tremble— those who live beneath the waters.

[6] The underworld is naked in God’s presence. The place of destruction is uncovered.

[7] God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

[8] He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.

[9] He covers the face of the moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

[10] He created the horizon when he separated the waters; he set the boundary between day and night.

[11] The foundations of heaven tremble; they shudder at his rebuke.

[12] By his power the sea grew calm. By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.

[13] His Spirit made the heavens beautiful, and his power pierced the gliding serpent.

[14] These are just the beginning of all that he does, merely a whisper of his power. Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?”

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