Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty? 1 CPDV Then Job responded by saying: BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 CPDV Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong? BSB BSB: “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 CPDV To whom have you given advice? Perhaps it is to him that has no wisdom or prudence that you have revealed your many ideas. BSB BSB: How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 CPDV Who is it that you wanted to teach? Was it not him that created the breath of life? BSB BSB: To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
5 CPDV Behold, giant things groan under the waters, and they dwell with them. BSB BSB: The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
6 CPDV The underworld is naked before him, and there is no covering for perdition. BSB BSB: Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 CPDV He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing. BSB BSB: He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 CPDV He secures the waters in his clouds, so that they do not burst forth downward all at once. BSB BSB: He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9 CPDV He holds back the face of his throne, and he stretches his cloud over it. BSB BSB: He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 CPDV He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit. BSB BSB: He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 CPDV The pillars of heaven tremble and are frightened at his nod. BSB BSB: The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 CPDV By his strength, the seas suddenly gather together, and his foresight has struck the arrogant. BSB BSB: By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
13 CPDV His spirit has adorned the heavens, and his birthing hand has brought forth the winding serpent. BSB BSB: By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 CPDV Behold, these things have been said about his ways in part, and, since we barely have heard a small drop of his word, who will be able to gaze upon the thunder of his greatness? 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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