Job 26
1 Then Job answered:
Then Job answered, and said:
2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.
4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?
5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.
Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together.
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud over it.
10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.
11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck.
12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his wisdom has struck the proud one.
13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.
14 Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?
