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26:7. He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the
earth upon nothing.
26:8. He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out
and fall down together.
26:9. He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud
over it.
26:10. He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come
to an end.
26:11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck.
26:12. By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his
wisdom has struck the proud one.
26:13. His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand
brought forth the winding serpent.
His obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent... That is, the
omnipotent power of God: which brought forth all things created in time,
but conceived in the Divine mind from all eternity. The winding serpent,
a constellation of fixed stars winding round the north pole, called
Draco. This appears from the foregoing part of the same verse, His
spirit hath adorned the heavens.
26:14. Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have
heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the
thunder of his greatness?
Job Chapter 27
Job persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will be
punished in the end.
27:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
27:2. As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty,
who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
27:3. As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my
nostrils,
27:4. My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive
lying.
27:5. God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will
not depart from my innocence.
27:6. My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake:
for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
27:7. Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked
one.
27:8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he
take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
27:9. Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
27:10. Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at
all times?
27:11. I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and
I will not conceal it.
27:12. Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without
cause?
27:13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance
of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
27:14. If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his
grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
27:15. They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his
widows shall not weep.
27:16. If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as
clay,
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