Job 26

 

 

Job 26

1 Then Job replied:

² “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

³ What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed!

⁴ Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

⁵ “The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

⁶ The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.

⁷ He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.

⁸ He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

⁹ He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.

¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for a boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹ The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.

¹² By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

¹³ By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

¹⁴ And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”