Job 26- 1
- Then Job replied:
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- "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
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- What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
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- Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
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- "The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
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- Death [1] is naked before God; Destruction [2] lies uncovered.
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- He spreads out the northern [skies] over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
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- He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
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- He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
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- He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
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- The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.
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- By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
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- By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
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- And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"
- [6] Hebrew Sheol
- [6] Hebrew Abaddon