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What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight(A) you have displayed!
Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?(B)

“The dead are in deep anguish,(C)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

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How you have (A)counseled him who has no wisdom,
    and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
With whose help have you uttered words,
    and whose breath (B)has come out from you?
The (C)dead tremble
    under the waters and their inhabitants.

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How have you counseled one who has no wisdom?
And how have you declared sound advice to many?
To whom have you uttered words?
And whose spirit came from you?

“The dead tremble,
Those under the waters and those inhabiting them.

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How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

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What advice you have given to one without wisdom!
What helpful insight you have abundantly [a]provided!
To whom have you uttered words?
And whose [b]spirit was expressed through you?

The Greatness of God

“The [c](A)departed spirits are made to tremble
Under the waters and their inhabitants.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 26:3 Lit made known
  2. Job 26:4 Lit breath has gone forth
  3. Job 26:5 Or shades; Heb Rephaim