Job Chapter 26 Back Next{26:1} Then
Job answered,
{26:2} "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
{26:3} How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
{26:4} To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
{26:5} "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
{26:6}
Sheol is naked before God, and [11>]
Abaddon[<11] has no covering.
{26:7} He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the
earth on nothing.
{26:8} He binds up the waters in his thick
clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
{26:9} He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
{26:10} He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and
darkness.
{26:11} The pillars of
heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
{26:12} He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
{26:13} By his Spirit the heavens are
garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
{26:14} Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
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