Job 26
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then Job made answer and said,
2 “How you have helped one who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
3 How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!
How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
4 With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?
To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
5 The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell in them.
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
9 He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.
By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
10 He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters as the line between light and darkness.
By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
12 He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
13 By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
14 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?”
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.
