en_ulb/18-JOB/26.usfm

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\v 1 Then Job answered and said,
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\v 2 "How you have helped one who has no power!
\q How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
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\v 3 How you have advised one who has no wisdom
\q and announced to him sound knowledge!
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\v 4 With whose help have you spoken these words?
\q Whose spirit was it that came out from you?"
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\v 5 Bildad replied, "Those who are deceased, the shades, tremble,
\q those inhabitants beneath the waters.
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\v 6 Sheol is naked before God;
\q destruction itself has no covering against him.
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\v 7 He stretches out the north over empty space
\q and hangs the earth upon nothing.
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\v 8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
\q but the clouds are not torn under them.
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\v 9 He encloses the face of the moon
\q and spreads his clouds on it.
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\v 10 He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters
\q as the line between light and darkness.
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\v 11 The pillars of heaven tremble
\q and are astonished at his rebuke.
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\v 12 He calmed the sea with his power;
\q by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
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\v 13 By his breath, he cleared the heavens of storms; the heavens were cleared of storms;
\q his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
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\v 14 See, these are but the fringes of his ways;
\q how small a whisper do we hear of him!
\q Who can understand the thunder of his power?"