Job 26
1 Then Job made answer and said,
Then Job answered:
2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. (Sheol h7585)
7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
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?”
