Job 26
1 Then Job made answer and said,
But Job answered and said,
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 have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?
3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
How have you counceled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Hell is naked before him, and destruction 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 the empty place, and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
He holds back the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
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 compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.
13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked 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.
See, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
