1 ARST Then Job replied to Bildad and the others. He said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 ARST “I am struggling, but you have not really helped me. I am not able to overcome my difficulties, but you have not rescued me. BSB BSB: “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 ARST I need good advice, but you have not given me any. You have said many things, but they have not been helpful. BSB BSB: How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 ARST I suppose you think that God helped you tell me important things. But God was not really speaking through you. BSB BSB: To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
5 ARST { Let me tell you how great God really is.} The spirits of dead people tremble with fear at God. They are deep in the earth, below the waters where the sea creatures live. BSB BSB: The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
6 ARST God knows all about those who are in the place where dead people go. Nothing prevents God from seeing what is there. BSB BSB: Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 ARST God created the dome of the sky to make an orderly world. God created the dry land where previously there was nowhere for people to live. BSB BSB: He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 ARST God uses clouds as containers for rainwater, and he prevents that water from bursting the clouds. BSB BSB: He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9 ARST God can make clouds so thick that even the bright moon cannot shine through them. BSB BSB: He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 ARST God has set the horizon in place as the outer edge of the oceans. The horizon is at the place where the sky meets the earth. BSB BSB: He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 ARST Sometimes even the mountains that hold up the sky shake, as if God were scolding them and they were afraid. BSB BSB: The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 ARST God used his power to restrain the oceans; by his skill he destroyed Rahab, the huge sea monster. BSB BSB: By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
13 ARST God can make the sky clear by blowing away the clouds.{ God brings order everywhere in creation} by overcoming the forces of chaos. BSB BSB: By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 ARST But I have described only a little bit of what God does. It is as if we can only hear someone whisper about him. When we hear mighty thunder, we realize that God is far too great for us to understand. BSB BSB: Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
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