Job 26
1 Respondens autem Iob, dixit:
Then Job answered:
2 Cuius adiutor es? numquid imbecillis? et sustentas brachium eius, qui non est fortis?
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 Cui dedisti consilium? forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam, et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam.
How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 Quem docere voluisti? nonne eum, qui fecit spiramentum?
To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
5 Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis, et qui habitant cum eis.
The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. (Sheol h7585)
7 Qui extendit Aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terram super nihilum.
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 Qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis, ut non erumpant pariter deorsum.
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9 Qui tenet vultum solii sui, et expandit super illud nebulam suam.
He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 Terminum circumdedit aquis, usque dum finiantur lux et tenebrae.
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 Columnae caeli contremiscunt, et pavent ad nutum eius.
The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 In fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt, et prudentia eius percussit superbum.
By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
13 Spiritus eius ornavit caelos: et obstetricante manu eius, eductus est coluber tortuosus.
By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 Ecce, haec ex parte dicta sunt viarum eius: et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis eius audierimus, quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri?
Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
