< Job 26 >
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered and said,
2 what? to help to/for not strength to save arm not strength
“How you have helped one who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
3 what? to advise to/for not wisdom and wisdom to/for abundance to know
How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!
4 [obj] who? to tell speech and breath who? to come out: come from you
With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?
5 [the] shade to twist: tremble from underneath: under water and to dwell them
The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell in them.
6 naked hell: Sheol before him and nothing covering to/for Abaddon (Sheol )
Sheol is naked before God; destruction itself has no covering against him. (Sheol )
7 to stretch north upon formlessness to hang land: country/planet upon without what?
He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.
8 to constrain water in/on/with cloud his and not to break up/open cloud underneath: under them
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.
9 to grasp face: surface throne to spread upon him cloud his
He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.
10 statute: allotment to mark upon face: surface water till limit light with darkness
He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters as the line between light and darkness.
11 pillar heaven to tremble and to astounded from rebuke his
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
12 in/on/with strength his to disturb [the] sea (and in/on/with understanding his *Q(k)*) to wound Rahab monster
He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
13 in/on/with spirit: breath his heaven clearness to bore hand his serpent fleeing
By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 look! these end (way: conduct his *Q(K)*) and what? whisper word to hear: hear in/on/with him and thunder (might his *Q(K)*) who? to understand
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?”