Job 26

Chapter 26

¹Then Job answered:

²“How you have helped him who has no power!

How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

³How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

⁴With whose help have you uttered words,

and whose spirit has come forth from you?

⁵The shades below tremble,

the waters and their inhabitants.

⁶Sheol is naked before God,

and Abaddon has no covering.

⁷He stretches out the north over the void,

and hangs the earth upon nothing.

⁸He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹He covers the face of the moon,^z

and spreads over it his cloud.

¹⁰He has described a circle upon the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble,

and are astounded at his rebuke.

¹²By his power he stilled the sea;

by his understanding he smote Rahab.

¹³By his wind the heavens were made fair;

his hand pierced the fleeing 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?”