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Job 26 (CEV)

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¹ Job said: ² You have really been helpful to someone weak and weary. ³ You have given great advice and wonderful wisdom to someone truly in need. ⁴ How can anyone possibly speak with such understanding? ⁵ Remember the terrible trembling of those in the world of the dead below the mighty ocean. ⁶ Nothing in that land of death and destruction is hidden from God, ⁷ who hung the northern sky and suspended the earth on empty space. ⁸ God stores water in clouds, but they don't burst, ⁹ and he wraps them around the face of the moon. ¹⁰ On the surface of the ocean, God has drawn a boundary line between light and darkness. ¹¹ And columns supporting the sky tremble at his command. ¹² By his power and wisdom, God conquered the force of the mighty ocean. ¹³ The heavens became bright when he breathed, and the escaping sea monster died at the hands of God. ¹⁴ These things are merely a whisper of God's power at work. How little we would understand if this whisper ever turned into thunder!