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Sunday, May 5th, 2024
the <>Sixth Sunday after Easter
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Job 26

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Job's Ninth Speech: A Response to Bildad

1 Then Job spoke again:

2 "How you have helped the powerless!
    How you have saved the weak!
3 How you have enlightened my stupidity!
    What wise advice you have offered!
4 Where have you gotten all these wise sayings?
    Whose spirit speaks through you?

5 "The dead tremble—
    those who live beneath the waters.
6 The underworld[a] is naked in God's presence.
    The place of destruction[b] is uncovered.
7 God stretches the northern sky over empty space
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,
    and the clouds don't burst with the weight.
9 He covers the face of the moon,[c]
    shrouding it with his clouds.
10 He created the horizon when he separated the waters;
    he set the boundary between day and night.
11 The foundations of heaven tremble;
    they shudder at his rebuke.
12 By his power the sea grew calm.
    By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.[d]
13 His Spirit made the heavens beautiful,
    and his power pierced the gliding serpent.
14 These are just the beginning of all that he does,
    merely a whisper of his power.
    Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?"

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