JOB
CHAPTER 26

Job

¹ Then Job replied:

² "How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
³ What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed!
⁴ Who 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.
⁶ Death ^[1] is naked before God;
Destruction ^[2] lies uncovered.
⁷ He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.
⁸ He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading his clouds over it.
¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for a boundary between light and darkness.
¹¹ The pillars of the heavens quake,
aghast at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he churned up the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
¹³ By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
¹⁴ And 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?"

Footnotes

1. 26:6 Hebrew Sheol
2. 26:6 Hebrew Abaddon

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