Job 25–26

CHAPTER 25

Bildad Asks, Can Man Be Right with God?

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

²“^aRule and dread ¹belong to Him

Who makes peace in ^bHis heights.

³“Is there any number to ^aHis troops?

And upon whom does His light not rise?

⁴“How then can mortal man be ^aright with God?

Or how can he be ^bpure who is born of woman?

⁵“Behold even ^athe moon has no brightness,

And the ^bstars are not pure in His sight;

⁶How much less ^amortal man, that ^bmaggot,

And the son of man, that worm!”

CHAPTER 26

Who Can Understand God?

¹Then Job answered and said,

²“What a help you are to ^athe one without power!

How you have saved the arm ^bwithout strength!

³“What counsel you have given to one without wisdom!

What sound wisdom you have abundantly made known!

⁴“To whom have you declared words?

And whose breath comes out from you?

⁵“The ^1adeparted spirits tremble

Under the waters and their inhabitants.

⁶“Naked is ^aSheol before Him,

And ^1bAbaddon has no covering.

⁷“He ^astretches out the north over what is formless

And hangs the earth on nothing.

⁸“He ^awraps up the waters in His clouds,

And the cloud does not break out under them.

⁹“He ^1aobscures the face of His ²throne

And spreads His cloud over it.

¹⁰“He has marked a ^acircle on the surface of the waters

At the ^bboundary of light and darkness.

¹¹“The pillars of heaven tremble

And are astonished at His rebuke.

¹²“He ^aquieted the sea with His power,

And by His ^bunderstanding He crushed ^cRahab.

¹³“By His breath the ^aheavens are made beautiful;

His hand has pierced ^bthe fleeing serpent.

¹⁴“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;

And how only with a whisper of ^aa word do we hear of Him!

But His mighty ^bthunder, who can understand?”