Job 26 ⓘ

26:1 Then Job answered,

26:2 “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

26:3 How have you counselled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

26:4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

26:5 “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

26:9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

26:10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

26:14 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?”