Job 26

Job’s Ninth Speech: A Response to Bildad

1Then Job answered and said,[#Hebrew “And”]

2“How you have helped one who has no power![#Singular; #Literally “for not power”]

How you have assisted the arm that has no strength!

3How you have advised one who has no wisdom![#Singular; #Literally “for not wisdom”]

And what sound wisdom you have made known in abundance!

4With whose help have you uttered words,[#Literally “With whom”; #Singular]

and whose breath has come forth from you?

5“The spirits of the dead tremble

below the waters and their inhabitants.

6Sheol is naked before him,

and there is no covering for Abaddon.

7He stretches out the north over emptiness;

he hangs the earth over nothing.

8He ties up the water in its clouds,

and the cloud is not torn open beneath it.

9He covers the face of the full moon;[#Text reads “throne”; “full moon” is based on a change of the vowels]

he spreads his cloud over it.

10He has described a circle on the face of the water[#NRSV; literally “a limit he has circled”]

between light and darkness.

11“The pillars of heaven tremble,

and they are astounded at his rebuke.

12By his power he stilled the sea,

and by his understanding he struck down Rahab.

13By his breath the heavens were made clear;[#Literally “heavens clearness”]

his hand pierced the fleeing snake.

14Look, these are the outer fringes of his ways,

and how faint is the word that we hear of him!

But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

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