The Holy Bible – Knox Translation
The Book of Job
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Chapter 26
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But Job answered:
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Bravely spoken, for a cause that so much needed it! That arm of thine ever upheld the weak.
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Brave advice offered in that great discernment of thine, to one who so lacks wisdom!
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A fine lesson thou hast read him, the God who gave thee breath!
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Sure enough, there is none but trembles before him; even the old heroes, and those who share their dwelling-place under the lower depths;
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bare to his eyes is the place of shadows, oblivion lies revealed.
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He it was spread out the northern skies over emptiness, poised earth on nothing;
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cloud-bound he holds the rain, that else would spill on earth all at once,
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veiled and shut in with cloud his unseen throne.
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While day and night last, the waters keep the bounds he has decreed for them;
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the very pillars of heaven tremble awe-struck at his will.
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His the power, his the wisdom, that drew the seas together all in a moment, and the rebellious dragon struck down;
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his the spirit that clothed the heavens, his the hand that drew yonder writhing serpent from the womb.✻
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Here is but a small part of his doings, here is but the whisper of his voice; who dares to contemplate the thunder of his full magnificence?
