Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty? 1 UDB Job replied to Bildad: BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 UDB "I am a very weak and helpless man; you do not really think that you have helped me at all, do you? BSB BSB: “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 UDB You certainly do not think that you have given me good advice, do you?—me, who am not wise at all. BSB BSB: How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 UDB Who helped you to say all those great things? Who inspired you to speak like you did? BSB BSB: To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
5 UDB The spirits of dead people tremble with fear, those who are under the waters and everyone who dwells with them. BSB BSB: The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
6 UDB God knows all about those who are in the place of the dead; there is nothing down there that prevents God from seeing what is there. BSB BSB: Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 UDB God stretches out heaven over the empty spaces, and he places the earth in that huge empty space, but it is not resting on anything. BSB BSB: He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 UDB He fills the thick clouds with water and 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 UDB He causes clouds to obscure the moon. BSB BSB: He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 UDB He separates the light from the darkness and puts the horizon to mark the place where the night ends and the daytime begins. BSB BSB: He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 UDB When he is angry, it is as though he rebuked the pillars that hold up the sky. They are shocked, and they tremble. BSB BSB: The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 UDB By his power he calmed the sea; 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 UDB By his breath he caused the sky to be bright; by his hand he killed the great dragon in the sea as it was fleeing from him. BSB BSB: By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 UDB But those events show only a small amount of his power; it is as though we were hearing only whispers of his powerful voice. When we hear thunder, we say, 'Who can really understand how great his power is?'" 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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