Job 26 / 42
- 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.
- 6Death 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?"