Job 26

1 Then Job answered and said,

Tetapi Ayub menjawab:

2 “How you have helped one who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

"Alangkah baiknya bantuanmu kepada yang tidak kuat, dan pertolonganmu kepada lengan yang tidak berdaya!

3 How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!

Alangkah baiknya nasihatmu kepada orang yang tidak mempunyai hikmat, dan pengertian yang kauajarkan dengan limpahnya!

4 With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?

Atas anjuran siapakah engkau mengucapkan perkataan-perkataan itu, dan gagasan siapakah yang kaunyatakan?

5 The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell in them.

Roh-roh di bawah menggeletar, demikian juga air dan penghuninya.

6 Sheol is naked before God; destruction itself has no covering against him. (Sheol h7585)

Dunia orang mati terbuka di hadapan Allah, tempat kebinasaanpun tidak ada tutupnya. (Sheol h7585)

7 He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.

Allah membentangkan utara di atas kekosongan, dan menggantungkan bumi pada kehampaan.

8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.

Ia membungkus air di dalam awan-Nya, namun awan itu tidak robek.

9 He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.

Ia menutupi pemandangan takhta-Nya, melingkupinya dengan awan-Nya.

10 He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters as the line between light and darkness.

Ia telah menarik garis pada permukaan air, sampai ujung perbatasan antara terang dan gelap;

11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

tiang-tiang langit bergoyang-goyang, tercengang-cengang oleh hardik-Nya.

12 He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

Ia telah meneduhkan laut dengan kuasa-Nya dan meremukkan Rahab dengan kebijaksanaan-Nya.

13 By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Oleh nafas-Nya langit menjadi cerah, tangan-Nya menembus ular yang tangkas.

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?”

Sesungguhnya, semuanya itu hanya ujung-ujung jalan-Nya; betapa lembutnya bisikan yang kita dengar dari pada-Nya! Siapa dapat memahami guntur kuasa-Nya?"