Job 26

26TH CHAPTER

Job Speaks:

My Friends Have Offered Useless Advice

¹Then Job replied ⸤to his friends⸥, 

²“You have helped the person who has no power 

and saved the arm that isn’t strong. 

³You have advised the person who has no wisdom 

and offered so much assistance. 

⁴To whom have you spoken ⸤these⸥ words, 

and whose spirit has spoken through you? 

God’s Power over Creation

⁵“The souls of the dead tremble beneath the water, 

and so do the creatures living there. 

⁶Sheol is naked in God’s presence, 

and Abaddon has no clothing. 

⁷“He stretches out his heavens^aover empty space. 

He hangs the earth on nothing whatsoever. 

⁸He holds the water in his thick clouds, 

and the clouds don’t ⸤even⸥ split under its ⸤weight⸥. 

⁹He covers his throne^b

by spreading his cloud over it. 

¹⁰He marks the horizon on the surface of the water 

at the boundary where light meets dark. 

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble 

and are astonished when he yells at them. 

¹²With his power he calmed the sea. 

With his insight he killed Rahab ⸤the sea monster⸥. 

¹³With his wind the sky was cleared. 

With his hand he stabbed the fleeing snake. 

¹⁴“These are only glimpses of what he does. 

We ⸤only⸥ hear a whisper of him! 

Who can understand the thunder of his power?”