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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/25.htm" title="Job 25">◄</a> Job 26 <a href="../job/27.htm" title="Job 27">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch22026" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn22026" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Job’s Reply.</span> <span id="v22026001" class="ver">1</span>Then Job answered and said:<a id="rfn22026001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22026001-1">*</a></p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v22026002" class="ver">2</span>What help you give to the powerless,</p> <p class="sl1">what strength to the feeble arm!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026003" class="ver">3</span>How you give counsel to one without wisdom;</p> <p class="sl1">how profuse is the advice you offer!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026004" class="ver">4</span>With whose help have you uttered those words,</p> <p class="sl1">whose breath comes forth from you?<a id="ren22026004-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22026004-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026005" class="ver">5</span>The shades<a id="rfn22026005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22026005-1">*</a> beneath writhe in terror,<a id="ren22026005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22026005-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">the waters, and their inhabitants.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026006" class="ver">6</span>Naked before him is Sheol,<a id="rfn22026006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22026006-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and Abaddon has no covering.<a id="ren22026006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22026006-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026007" class="ver">7</span>He stretches out Zaphon<a id="rfn22026007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22026007-1">*</a> over the void,</p> <p class="sl1">and suspends the earth over nothing at all;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026008" class="ver">8</span>He binds up the waters in his clouds,</p> <p class="sl1">yet the cloud is not split by their weight;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026009" class="ver">9</span>He holds back the appearance of the full moon</p> <p class="sl1">by spreading his clouds before it.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026010" class="ver">10</span>He has marked out a circle<a id="rfn22026010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22026010-1">*</a> on the surface of the deep<a id="ren22026010-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22026010-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl1">as the boundary of light and darkness.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026011" class="ver">11</span>The pillars of the heavens tremble</p> <p class="sl1">and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;<a id="ren22026011-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22026011-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026012" class="ver">12</span>By his power he stilled Sea,</p> <p class="sl1">by his skill he crushed Rahab;<a id="rfn22026012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22026012-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026013" class="ver">13</span>By his wind the heavens were made clear,</p> <p class="sl1">his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.<a id="rfn22026013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22026013-1">*</a> <a id="ren22026013-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22026013-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22026014" class="ver">14</span>Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways,</p> <p class="sl1">and what a whisper of a word we hear of him:</p> <p class="sl1">Who can comprehend the thunder of his power?</p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span 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