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Job 37:18-20
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

18 Can you with him spread out the firmament of the skies,
    hard as a molten mirror?[a]
19 Teach us then what we shall say to him;
    we cannot, for the darkness, make our plea.
20 Will he be told about it when I speak?
    Can anyone talk when he is being destroyed?

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Footnotes

  1. 37:18 The firmament…mirror: the ancients thought of the sky as a ceiling above which were the “upper waters” (cf. Gn 1:6–7; 7:11); when this ceiling became as hard as metal, the usual rain failed to fall on the earth (cf. Lv 26:19; Dt 28:23).
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