Job 26
1 Then Job answered,
Then answered Job, and said,
2 “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you 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 have you counselled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live 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 north over empty space, and hangs the earth on 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, and the cloud is not burst under them.
He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;
9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;
10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of 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 stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed [its] pride:
13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
By his breath the heavens [acquired] beauty; his hand hath created the flying serpent.
14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
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?
