Job 26
Chapter 26 of 42
1 Job’s Reply. Then Job answered and said:
2 What help you give to the powerless, what strength to the feeble arm!
3 How you give counsel to one without wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!
4 With whose help have you uttered those words, whose breath comes forth from you?
5 The shades beneath writhe in terror, the waters, and their inhabitants.
6 Naked before him is Sheol, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 He stretches out Zaphon over the void, and suspends the earth over nothing at all;
8 He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not split by their weight;
9 He holds back the appearance of the full moon by spreading his clouds before it.
10 He has marked out a circle on the surface of the deep as the boundary of light and darkness.
11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;
12 By his power he stilled Sea, by his skill he crushed Rahab;
13 By his wind the heavens were made clear, his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and what a whisper of a word we hear of him: Who can comprehend the thunder of his power?