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Job 26 (NET)

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Job 26:1¹Then Job replied:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 26:2²“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 35:3-4 Job 4:3-4 1 Kgs 18:27 Isa 41:5-7 Job 12:2 Job 16:4-5 Job 6:12 Job 6:25 Ps 71:9 Isa 40:14

Job 26:3³How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 20:20 Acts 20:27 Job 12:3 Job 13:5 Job 15:8-10 Job 17:10 Job 32:11-13 Job 33:3 Job 33:33 Job 38:2

Job 26:4⁴To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:23-24 1 Cor 12:3 1 John 4:1-3 Eccl 12:7 Job 20:3 Job 32:18 Rev 16:13-14

Job 26:5⁵“The dead tremble — those beneath the waters and all that live in them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 6:4 Ps 88:10 Job 41:1-34 Ezek 29:3-5 Ps 104:25-26

Job 26:6⁶The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 15:11 Ps 139:8 Heb 4:13 Amos 9:2 Job 28:22 Isa 14:9 Job 11:8 Job 41:11 Ps 139:11 Ps 88:10

Job 26:7⁷He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 9:8 Isa 40:22 Ps 104:2-5 Isa 42:5 Gen 1:1-2 Prov 8:23-27 Ps 24:2 Isa 40:26

Job 26:8⁸He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 37:11-16 Prov 30:4 Jer 10:13 Isa 5:6 Job 38:37 Job 38:9 Ps 135:7 Ps 18:10-11 Gen 1:6-7 Job 36:29

Job 26:9⁹He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 97:2 Job 22:14 1 Kgs 8:12 Exod 20:21 Exod 33:20-23 Exod 34:3 Hab 3:3-5 1 Tim 6:16

Job 26:10¹⁰He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 8:29 Job 38:8-11 Jer 5:22 Ps 33:7 Gen 8:22 Isa 54:9-10 Ps 104:6-9

Job 26:11¹¹The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:8 Hag 2:21 Job 15:15 Ps 18:7 Heb 12:26-27 2 Pet 3:10 Rev 20:11

Job 26:12¹²By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 51:15 Jer 31:35 Isa 51:9 Job 12:13 Job 9:13 Ps 89:9-10 Ps 74:13 Ps 93:3-4 Exod 14:21-31 Dan 4:37

Job 26:13¹³By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 27:1 Ps 104:30 Ps 74:13-14 Gen 1:2 Ps 33:6-7 Rev 12:9

Job 26:14¹⁴Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 40:26-29 Job 11:7-9 Ps 139:6 Ps 145:3 Rom 11:33 1 Cor 13:9-12 1 Sam 2:10 Job 36:29 Job 4:12 Job 40:9

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