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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
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Contemporary English Version

Job 26

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Job's Reply to Bildad

You Have Really Been Helpful

1 Job said:

2 You have really been helpful
    to someone weak and weary.
3 You have given great advice
and wonderful wisdom
    to someone truly in need.
4 How can anyone possibly speak
    with such understanding?

5 Remember the terrible trembling
of those in the world of the dead
    below the mighty ocean.
6 Nothing in that land
of death and destruction
    is hidden from God,
7 who hung the northern sky
and suspended the earth
    on empty space.
8 God stores water in clouds,
    but they don't burst,
9 and he wraps them around
    the face of the moon.
10 On the surface of the ocean,
God has drawn a boundary line
    between light and darkness.
11 And columns supporting the sky
    tremble at his command.

12 By his power and wisdom,
God conquered the force
    of the mighty ocean.[a]
13 The heavens became bright
    when he breathed,
and the escaping sea monster[b]
    died at the hands of God.
14 These things are merely a whisper
    of God's power at work.
How little we would understand
if this whisper
    ever turned into thunder!

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