Job 26
1 Then Job answered:
Then answered Job, and said,
2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
The departed are called into being beneath the waters, and their inhabitants.
Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing;
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;
10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness.
11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.
12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed [its] pride:
13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
By his breath the heavens [acquired] beauty; his hand hath created the flying 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 are ends of his ways; for how slight a whisper is heard [by us] of him! but the thunder of his mighty deeds who can understand?
