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Job 26:1–14
Job’s Ninth Speech: A Response to Bildad
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?
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?”
* | 26:6a Hebrew Sheol. |
* | 26:6b Hebrew Abaddon. |
* | 26:9 Or covers his throne. |
* | 26:12 Hebrew Rahab, the name of a mythical sea monster that represents chaos in ancient literature. |
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