1 Then Job responded by saying: 2 Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong? 3 To whom have you given advice? Perhaps it is to him that has no wisdom or prudence that you have revealed your many ideas. 4 Who is it that you wanted to teach? Was it not him that created the breath of life? 5 Behold, giant things groan under the waters, and they dwell with them. 6 The underworld is naked before him, and there is no covering for perdition. 7 He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing. 8 He secures the waters in his clouds, so that they do not burst forth downward all at once. 9 He holds back the face of his throne, and he stretches his cloud over it. 10 He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit. 11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are frightened at his nod. 12 By his strength, the seas suddenly gather together, and his foresight has struck the arrogant. 13 His spirit has adorned the heavens, and his birthing hand has brought forth the winding serpent. 14 Behold, these things have been said about his ways in part, and, since we barely have heard a small drop of his word, who will be able to gaze upon the thunder of his greatness?
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Cross references (13)
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- 2 Job 4:3–4; Isaiah 35:3–4; Psalm 71:9; Job 6:12; Job 16:4–5
- 3 Job 32:11–13; Job 33:3; Job 12:3; Job 33:33; Acts 20:20
- 4 1 Kings 22:23–24; Ecclesiastes 12:7; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Job 32:18; 1 John 4:1–3
- 5 Psalm 88:10; Genesis 6:4; Job 41:1–34; Ezekiel 29:3–5; Psalm 104:25–26
- 6 Psalm 139:8; Proverbs 15:11; Hebrews 4:13; Amos 9:2; Job 28:22
- 7 Job 9:8; Psalm 104:2–5; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 24:2
- 8 Job 37:11–16; Proverbs 30:4; Jeremiah 10:13; Isaiah 5:6; Psalm 135:7
- 9 Psalm 97:2; Job 22:14; Exodus 20:21; Exodus 34:3; Habakkuk 3:3–5
- 10 Proverbs 8:29; Job 38:8–11; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 33:7; Isaiah 54:9–10
- 11 1 Samuel 2:8; Job 15:15; Psalm 18:7; Haggai 2:21; Hebrews 12:26–27
- 12 Isaiah 51:15; Jeremiah 31:35; Job 12:13; Job 9:13; Psalm 89:9–10
- 13 Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 104:30; Psalm 74:13–14; Psalm 33:6–7; Genesis 1:2
- 14 Isaiah 40:26–29; Romans 11:33; Psalm 139:6; Psalm 145:3; Job 11:7–9
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth: and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom: and, the cloud is not rent under Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Again some other says, He Who hangeth the earth on nothing.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)