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Job's Extended Defense: God's Power and the Friends' Failings (part 1)

Job 26:1-28:7

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Chapter 26
1 Job answered and said. 2 What have you helped the powerless? You have saved with the arm of no-might? 3 How have you counseled without wisdom, and sound counsel amid much knowledge? 4 To whom have you told words, and whose spirit has gone out from you? 5 The Rephaim tremble under the waters and their neighbors. 6 Naked Sheol is before him, and there is no covering for Abaddon. 7 He stretches out the north over tohu; he suspends the earth over nothing. 8 He binds up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud does not split beneath them. 9 He grasps the face—he covers it; he spreads cloud upon it. 10 He sets a boundary on the face of the waters to the end of the light with darkness. 11 The pillars of the heavens quiver and are dismayed at his rebuke. 12 By his strength he made the sea tremble, and by his understanding he crushed Rahab. 13 By his Spirit he beautified the heavens; his hand wounded her, the fleeing serpent. 14 Behold, these are the ends of his ways, and how faint a whisper of a word we hear from him! And the thunder of his mighty deeds—who can understand?
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Chapter 27
1 And Job continued his parable and said. 2 God’s life has removed my justice, and Shaddai has embittered my life force. 3 For all—as long as my breath is in me and the breath of God is in my nostrils. 4 If my lips speak injustice and my tongue mutters deceit. 5 Far be it from me! I will not justify you until I die. I will not remove my integrity from me. 6 In my righteousness I have held fast, and I will not let go—my heart will not taunt me in my days. 7 May my enemy be like the wicked, and my rising-up ones like injustice. 8 For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his soul? 9 Will God hear his outcry when distress comes upon him? 10 If he delights in Shaddai, will he call on God every time? 11 I will teach you by the hand of God—what is with Shaddai; I will not conceal. 12 Look—you all have seen it, and why do this in vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance that tyrants receive from Shaddai. 14 If his sons multiply, the sword will come to them, and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread. 15 His survivors will be buried in death, and his widows will not weep. 16 If he heaps up silver like dust and like clay he prepares clothing— 17 He will establish it, and the righteous will wear it, and he will divide silver to the innocent. 18 He builds his house like a moth and makes a booth like a spider. 19 The rich man lies down and is not gathered; he opens his eyes and he is not. 20 It will overtake him like waters; terror of night will steal him away like a storm. 21 The east wind carries him away and he goes, and it uproots him from his place. 22 He will hurl it upon him and not spare; he will flee from his hand in the wind. 23 And it claps its palms at him and hisses at him from its place.
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Chapter 28
1 Surely there is a source for silver and a place for gold that they refine. 2 He takes iron from dust and bronze from stone poured out. 3 He explores to the end there in darkness and to every limit—the stone of darkness and deep darkness. 4 He breaks through a stream from the people of the sojourner. The forgotten ones from the Footstool—they hang from humanity; they sway. 5 The earth, from which food comes, is turned like fire underneath it. 6 The place—sapphire its stones and its dust gold. 7 A path no bird of prey has known—no falcon’s eye has gazed on it.