Job 26
1 Then Job made answer and said,
Then answered Job, 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!
What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?
3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living 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 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended 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 bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;
9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
He closed up the surface of his throne, 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.
A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.
12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed [its] pride:
13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
By his breath the heavens [acquired] beauty; his hand hath created the flying 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.
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?
