Job 26
1 Then Job answered:
Then responded Job, and said: —
2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
How hast thou given help to one of no-strength? given victory to an arm of no-power?
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
How hast thou given counsel to one of no-wisdom? or, effective wisdom, abundantly made known?
4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Whom hast thou taught speech? Whose inspiration hath come from thee?
5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
The shades, tremble, beneath the waters and their inhabitants;
Naked is hades before him, and there is no covering to destruction; (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
Who shutteth-in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud;
10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;
11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
The pillars of the heavens, are shaken, and are terrified at his rebuke:
12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
By his strength, hath he excited the sea, and, by his skill, hath he shattered the Crocodile:
13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
By his spirit, hath he arched the heavens, His hand hath pierced the fleeing 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 the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?
