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You still the roaring of the seas,(A)
    the roaring of their waves,
    the tumult of the peoples.(B)

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13 You stirred up the sea by your might;(A)
    you smashed the heads of the dragons on the waters.(B)
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan,(C)
    gave him as food to the sharks.
15 You opened up springs and torrents,
    brought dry land out of the primeval waters.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 74:15 Waters: lit., “rivers” (cf. Ps 24:7; Isa 50:2) upon which, or from which, in primordial times the earth is created.

29 He hushed the storm to silence,
    the waves of the sea were stilled.(A)

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12 [a]Am I the Sea, or the dragon,
    that you place a watch over me?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 7:12–21 Job now speaks not to his friends (who never speak to God), but to God. He does this frequently; cf. 9:28; 10:2–22; 13:20–28; 14:13–22.
  2. 7:12 An allusion to the personification of primeval chaos as a monstrous ocean vanquished by God; see note on 3:8.

Awake, awake, put on strength,
    arm of the Lord!
Awake as in the days of old,
    in ages long ago!
Was it not you who crushed Rahab,[a]
    you who pierced the dragon?(A)
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
    the waters of the great deep,[b]
You who made the depths of the sea into a way
    for the redeemed to pass through?

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Footnotes

  1. 51:9 Rahab: see note on 30:7. The dragon: see notes on 27:1; Ps 74:12–17.
  2. 51:10 Great deep: a reference to the primeval chaos (cf. Gn 1:2; 7:11; 49:25; Jb 28:14; Ps 36:7; Jon 2:4).