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Then Job spoke again:
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“How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the weak!
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How you have enlightened my stupidity!
What wise advice you have offered!
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Where have you gotten all these wise sayings?
Whose spirit speaks through you?
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“The dead tremble -
those who live beneath the waters.
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The underworld 1 is naked in God’s presence.
The place of destruction 2 is uncovered.
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God stretches the northern sky over empty space
and hangs the earth on nothing.
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He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,
and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.
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He covers the face of the moon, 3
shrouding it with his clouds.
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He created the horizon when he separated the waters;
he set the boundary between day and night.
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The foundations of heaven tremble;
they shudder at his rebuke.
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By his power the sea grew calm.
By his skill he crushed the great sea monster. 4
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His Spirit made the heavens beautiful,
and his power pierced the gliding serpent.
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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?”