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How you give counsel to one without wisdom;
    how profuse is the advice you offer!
With whose help have you uttered those words,
    whose breath comes forth from you?(A)
The shades[a] beneath writhe in terror,(B)
    the waters, and their inhabitants.

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Footnotes

  1. 26:5 Shades: the dead in Sheol, the nether world; cf. Ps 88:11; Is 26:14.

What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight(A) you have displayed!
Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?(B)

“The dead are in deep anguish,(C)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

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