Job 26:1-14

26  Then responded Job and said:—  How hast thou given help to one of no-strength? Given victory to an arm of no-power?  How hast thou given counsel to one of no-wisdom? Or effective wisdom abundantly made known?  Whom hast thou taught speech? Whose inspiration hath come from thee?  The shades tremble, Beneath the waters and their inhabitants;  Naked is hades before him, And there is no covering to destruction;  Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, Hangeth the earth upon nothingness;  Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent beneath them;  Who shutteth-in the face of the throne, He spreadeth over it his cloud; 10  A boundary hath he encircled on the face of the waters, As far as where light ends in darkness; 11  The pillars of the heavens are shaken, And are terrified at his rebuke: 12  By his strength hath he excited the sea, And by his skill hath he shattered the Crocodile: 13  By his spirit hath he arched the heavens, His hand hath pierced the fleeing serpent. 14  Lo! these are the fringes of his way And what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But the thunder of his might who could understand?

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