Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?

Then Job answered:

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“ How you have helped the powerless

[and] saved the arm that is feeble

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How you have counseled the unwise

[and] provided fully sound insight!

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To whom have you uttered these words?

And whose spirit spoke through you?

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The dead tremble —

those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

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Sheol is naked before [God],

and Abaddon[fn] has no covering.

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He stretches out the north over empty space;

He hangs the earth upon nothing

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He wraps up the waters in His clouds,

yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

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He covers the face of the full moon,[fn]

spreading over it His cloud.

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He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

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The foundations of heaven quake,

astounded at His rebuke.

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By His power He stirred[fn] the sea;

by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

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By His breath the skies were cleared;

His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.[fn]

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Indeed, these [are] but the fringes of His ways;

how faint is the whisper we hear of Him!

Who then can understand

the thunder of His power?” 27