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18     Can you assist God in hammering out the silver sky
        until it appears as hard as cast metal mirror?[a]
19     Job, tell us what to say to Him.
        We cannot draw up our argument before such impenetrable darkness.
20     Shall He be told that I wish to speak to Him directly?
        Will it help if I admit I would be consumed if I did?

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Footnotes

  1. 37:18 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

18 can you join him in spreading out the skies,(A)
    hard as a mirror of cast bronze?(B)

19 “Tell us what we should say to him;(C)
    we cannot draw up our case(D) because of our darkness.(E)
20 Should he be told that I want to speak?
    Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?

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