Job 26
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then Job answered and said:
2 “How you have helped one who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
How hast thou helped the weak, And strengthened the feeble arm!
3 How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!
How hast thou counselled the ignorant, And revealed wisdom in fulness!
4 With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?
For whom hast thou uttered these words? And whose spirit spake through thee?
5 The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell in them.
Before Him the shades tremble Beneath the waters and their inhabitants.
The under-world is naked before him, And destruction is without covering. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.
9 He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.
He covereth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his clouds upon it.
10 He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters as the line between light and darkness.
He hath drawn a circular bound upon the waters, To the confines of light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
The pillars of heaven tremble And are confounded at his rebuke.
12 He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
By his power he stilleth the sea, Yea, by his wisdom he smiteth its pride.
13 By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; His hand hath formed the fleeing 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 but the borders of his works; How faint the whisper we have heard of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
