Job 26

New International Version

• 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 is naked before God; Destruction 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?"

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