Job 26

26Then Job answered and said,

²How hast thou helped him that is without power!

How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

³How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom,

And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

⁴To whom hast thou uttered words?

And whose spirit came forth from thee?

⁵They that are deceased tremble

Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.

⁶Sheol is naked before God,

And Abaddon hath no covering.

⁷He stretcheth out the north over empty space,

And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

⁸He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds;

And the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹He incloseth the face of his throne,

And spreadeth his cloud upon it.

¹⁰He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters,

Unto the confines of light and darkness.

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble

And are astonished at his rebuke.

¹²He stirreth up the sea with his power,

And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

¹³By his Spirit the heavens are garnished;

His hand hath pierced the swift serpent.

¹⁴Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways:

And how small a whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?