Job 26:1–14

Job

26 Then Job replied:

2 “How you have helped the powerless!r

How you have saved the arm that is feeble!s

3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!

And what great insightt you have displayed!

4 Who has helped you utter these words?

And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?u

5 “The dead are in deep anguish,v

those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

6 The realm of the deadw is naked before God;

Destructiona x lies uncovered.y

7 He spreads out the northern skiesz over empty space;

he suspends the earth over nothing.a

8 He wraps up the watersb in his clouds,c

yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

9 He covers the face of the full moon,

spreading his cloudsd over it.

10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waterse

for a boundary between light and darkness.f

11 The pillars of the heavens quake,g

aghast at his rebuke.

12 By his power he churned up the sea;h

by his wisdomi he cut Rahabj to pieces.

13 By his breath the skiesk became fair;

his hand pierced the gliding serpent.l

14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;

how faint the whisperm we hear of him!n

Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”o