A Better Description of God’s Greatness7

26:5 “The dead8 tremble9—

those beneath the waters

and all that live in them.10

26:6 The underworld11 is naked before God;12

the place of destruction lies uncovered.13

26:7 He spreads out the northern skies14 over empty space;15

he suspends the earth on nothing.16

26:8 He locks the waters in his clouds,

and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

26:9 He conceals17 the face of the full moon,18

shrouding it with his clouds.

26:10 He marks out the horizon19 on the surface of the waters

as a boundary between light and darkness.

26:11 The pillars20 of the heavens tremble

and are amazed at his rebuke.21

26:12 By his power he stills22 the sea;

by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster23 to pieces.24

26:13 By his breath25 the skies became fair;

his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.26

26:14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways!27

How faint is the whisper28 we hear of him!

But who can understand the thunder of his power?”