Job 26

CHAPTER 26

¹Forsooth Job answered, and said,

²Whose helper art thou? whether of the feeble, and sustainest the arm of him, which is not strong?

³To whom hast thou given counsel? In hap to him that hath not wisdom; and thou hast showed full much prudence.

⁴Either whom wouldest thou teach? whether not him, that made breathing?

⁵Lo! giants wail under waters, and they that dwell with them.

⁶Hell is naked before him, and no covering is to perdition.

⁷The which God stretcheth forth the north upon void thing, and he hangeth the earth upon nought.

⁸And he bindeth waters in their clouds, that those [or they] break not out altogether downward.

⁹He holdeth the cheer of his seat, and spreadeth abroad thereon his cloud.

¹⁰He hath encompassed a term, or an end , to waters, till that light and darkness be ended.

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his will.

¹²In the strength of him the seas were gathered together suddenly, and his prudence smote the proud.

¹³His spirit hath adorned heavens, and the crooked serpent was led out by his hand, leading him out as a midwife leadeth out a child.

¹⁴Lo! these things be said in part of his ways; and when we have heard scarcely a little drop of his word, who may see the thunder of his greatness?