1 Then Job answered and said:
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"How you have x helped him who has no power!
How you have saved y the arm that has no strength!
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How you have z counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
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With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose breath a has come out from you?
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The b dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
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Sheol is c naked before God, 1
and d Abaddon has no covering.
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He e stretches out the north over f the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
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He g binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not split open under them.
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He covers the face of the full moon 2
and h spreads over it his cloud.
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He has inscribed i a circle on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
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j The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astounded at his k rebuke.
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By his power he l stilled the sea;
by his understanding he shattered m Rahab.
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n By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand pierced o the fleeing serpent.
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Behold, these are but the outskirts of his p ways,
and how small q a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?"