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Texts -- Job 26:1-11 (NET)

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Job’s Reply to Bildad
26:1 Then Job replied : 26:2 “How you have helped the powerless ! How you have saved the person who has no strength ! 26:3 How you have advised the one without wisdom , and abundantly revealed your insight ! 26:4 To whom did you utter these words ? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?
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26:5 “The dead tremble – those beneath the waters and all that live in them. 26:6 The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered . 26:7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space ; he suspends the earth on nothing . 26:8 He locks the waters in his clouds , and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them. 26:9 He conceals the face of the full moon , shrouding it with his clouds . 26:10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness . 26:11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke .

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