Job 26
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then answered Job, and said,
2 “How you have helped one who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?
3 How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!
How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
4 With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?
To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell 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 He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.
He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing;
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.
He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;
9 He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.
He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;
10 He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters as the line between light and darkness.
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 tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.
12 He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed [its] pride:
13 By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
By his breath the heavens [acquired] beauty; his hand hath created the flying serpent.
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?”
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?
