Job 26
1 Then Job answered and said,
Then responded Job, 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 given help to one of no-strength? given victory to an arm of no-power?
3 How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!
How hast thou given counsel to one of no-wisdom? or, effective wisdom, abundantly made known?
4 With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?
Whom hast thou taught speech? Whose inspiration hath come from thee?
5 The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell in them.
The shades, tremble, beneath the waters and their inhabitants;
Naked is hades before him, and there is no covering to destruction; (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.
Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.
Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;
9 He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.
Who shutteth-in the face of the throne, he spreadeth 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, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
The pillars of the heavens, are shaken, and are terrified at his rebuke:
12 He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
By his strength, hath he excited the sea, and, by his skill, hath he shattered the Crocodile:
13 By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
By his spirit, hath he arched the heavens, His hand hath pierced 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 the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?
