Job 26
1 Job replied [to Bildad], saying this [sarcastically]:
And he answered Job and he said.
2 “I am a very weak and helpless man; and (you [certainly] have not helped me [SAR] very much!/[do you think that] you have helped me [SAR] very much?) [RHQ]
How! you have helped not power you have saved [the] arm not strength.
3 (You certainly have counseled me well—I, who am not wise at all./[Do you think that] you have counseled me well—I, who am not wise at all?) [RHQ] ([I’m sure you think that] you have given a lot of very good advice to me. [RHQ]
How! you have counseled not wisdom and sound wisdom for abundance you have made known.
4 Who helped you to say all those [great/wise] things? Who inspired you to speak like you did?”
Whom? have you told words and [the] breath of whom? has it gone out from you.
5 “[Because] the spirits of dead people [are afraid], [they] tremble in the waters that are deep under the earth.
The shades they are made to tremble under [the] waters and [those which] dwell in them.
6 God knows all about [those who are in] the place of the dead; there is nothing down there that prevents God from seeing what is there. (Sheol h7585)
[is] naked Sheol before him and not a covering [belongs] to Abaddon. (Sheol h7585)
7 God stretched out the earth over the huge empty space and caused the earth to have nothing [to support it].
[he] stretches out [the] north Over emptiness [he] hangs [the] earth on not whatever.
8 He fills the thick/dense clouds with water and prevents that water from bursting the clouds.
[he] binds up Waters in clouds his and not it is split open [the] cloud under them.
9 He causes clouds to (obscure/prevent us from seeing) the moon.
[he] covers [the] presence of [the] throne He spreads over it cloud his.
10 He separated the light from the darkness and put the horizon to mark the place where the night ends and the daytime begins.
A limit he has drawn a circle on [the] surface of [the] waters to [the] end of light with darkness.
11 When [he is angry, it is as though] he rebukes the pillars that hold up the sky. They are (shocked/very fearful), and they tremble.
[the] pillars of Heaven they shake and they may be astonished from rebuke his.
12 With his power he calmed the sea; with his skill/wisdom he destroyed Rahab, the huge sea monster.
By power his he stirred up the sea (and by understanding his *Q(k)*) he shattered Rahab.
13 With his breath he caused the sky to be bright/clear; with his hand he killed the great dragon in the sea.
By wind his [the] heavens [are] clearness it pierced hand his [the] snake fleeing.
14 But those events show only a small amount of his power; [it is as though] we are hearing only whispers of his powerful voice. When we hear thunder, [we say, ] ‘(Who can really understand [how great] his power [is]/No one can [really] understand [how great] his power [is]!) [RHQ]’”
There! these - [are] [the] ends of (ways his *Q(K)*) and what! a whisper of a word we hear in it and [the] thunder of (mighty deeds his *Q(K)*) who? will he understand.
