Job 26

Job

¹Then Job replied:

²“How you have helped the powerless!

How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

³What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!

And what great insight you have displayed!

⁴Who has helped you utter these words?

And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

⁵“The dead are in deep anguish,

those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

⁶The realm of the dead is naked before God;

Destruction lies uncovered.

⁷He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;

he suspends the earth over nothing.

⁸He wraps up the waters in his clouds,

yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

⁹He covers the face of the full moon,

spreading his clouds over it.

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

for a boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹The pillars of the heavens quake,

aghast at his rebuke.

¹²By his power he churned up the sea;

by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

¹³By his breath the skies became fair;

his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

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

how faint the whisper we hear of him!

Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”