Job 26

Job

Then Job replied:

“How you have helped the powerless!^a

How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^b

What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!

And what great insight^c you have displayed!

Who has helped you utter these words?

And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?^d

“The dead are in deep anguish,^e

those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

Death^f is naked before God;

Destruction^g lies uncovered.^h

He spreads out the northern ^⌈skies^⌈i over empty space;

he suspends the earth over nothing.^j

He wraps up the waters^k in his clouds,^l

yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

He covers the face of the full moon,

spreading his clouds^m over it.

He marks out the horizon on the face of the watersⁿ

for a boundary between light and darkness.^o

The pillars of the heavens quake,^p

aghast at his rebuke.

By his power he churned up the sea;^q

by his wisdom^r he cut Rahab^s to pieces.

By his breath the skies^t became fair;

his hand pierced the gliding serpent.^u

And these are but the outer fringe of his works;

how faint the whisper^v we hear of him!^w

Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”^x