Job 26
1 But Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said,
2 To whom do you attach yourself, or whom are you going to assist? is it not he that [has] much strength, and [he] who has a strong arm?
“How you have helped one who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
3 To whom have you given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom will you follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?
How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!
4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from you?
With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?
5 Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof?
The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell in them.
Sheol is naked before God; destruction itself has no covering against him. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;
He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.
8 binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not tore under it.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.
9 He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.
He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.
10 He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.
He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters as the line between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
12 He has calmed the sea with [his] might, and by [his] wisdom the whale has been overthrown.
He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
13 And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.
By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will listen to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ [it]?
See, these are but the fringes of his ways; how small a whisper do we hear of him! Who can understand the thunder of his power?”
