Job 26
1 Then Job answered:
Respondens autem Iob, dixit:
2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
Cuius adiutor es? numquid imbecillis? et sustentas brachium eius, qui non est fortis?
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
Cui dedisti consilium? forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam, et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam.
4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Quem docere voluisti? nonne eum, qui fecit spiramentum?
5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis, et qui habitant cum eis.
Nudus est infernus coram illo, et nullum est operimentum perditioni. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
Qui extendit Aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terram super nihilum.
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
Qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis, ut non erumpant pariter deorsum.
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
Qui tenet vultum solii sui, et expandit super illud nebulam suam.
10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Terminum circumdedit aquis, usque dum finiantur lux et tenebrae.
11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
Columnae caeli contremiscunt, et pavent ad nutum eius.
12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
In fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt, et prudentia eius percussit superbum.
13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Spiritus eius ornavit caelos: et obstetricante manu eius, eductus est coluber tortuosus.
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?”
Ecce, haec ex parte dicta sunt viarum eius: et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis eius audierimus, quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri?
