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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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Job's Reply to Bildad</h5><h3 class="s1">You Have Really Been Helpful</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.1" class="v18_26_1">1</span>Job said:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.2" class="v18_26_2">2</span>You have really been helpful</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_2">to someone weak and weary.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.3" class="v18_26_3">3</span>You have given great advice</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_3">and wonderful wisdom</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_3">to someone truly in need.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.4" class="v18_26_4">4</span>How can anyone possibly speak</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_4">with such understanding?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.5" class="v18_26_5">5</span>Remember the terrible trembling</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_5">of those in the world of the dead</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_5">below the mighty ocean.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.6" class="v18_26_6">6</span>Nothing in that land</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_6">of death and destruction</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_6">is hidden from God,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.7" class="v18_26_7">7</span>who hung the northern sky</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_7">and suspended the earth</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_7">on empty space.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.8" class="v18_26_8">8</span>God stores water in clouds,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_8">but they don't burst,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.9" class="v18_26_9">9</span>and he wraps them around</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_9">the face of the moon.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.10" class="v18_26_10">10</span>On the surface of the ocean,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_10">God has drawn a boundary line</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_10">between light and darkness.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.11" class="v18_26_11">11</span>And columns supporting the sky</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_11">tremble at his command.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.12" class="v18_26_12">12</span>By his power and wisdom,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_12">God conquered the force</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_12">of the mighty ocean.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.26.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.13" class="v18_26_13">13</span>The heavens became bright</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_13">when he breathed,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_13">and the escaping sea monster<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.26.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_13">died at his hands.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.26.14" class="v18_26_14">14</span>These things are merely a whisper</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_14">of God's power at work.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_14">How little we would understand</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_26_14">if this whisper</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_26_14">ever turned into thunder!</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.12 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the force of the mighty ocean: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “the ocean … Rahab.” In this passage the sea monster Rahab stands for the fearsome power of the ocean (see the notes at 3.8 and 9.13).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">26.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sea monster: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “snake,” which probably stands for some kind of fearsome sea monster, such as Leviathan (see Isaiah 27.1).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span 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