Job Rebukes Bildad

¹But Job answered and said,

²“What a help you are to the weak (powerless)!

How you have saved the arm that is without strength!

³“How you have counseled the one who has no wisdom!

And how abundantly you have provided sound wisdom and helpful insight!

⁴“To whom have you uttered [these] words?

And whose spirit [inspired what] came forth from you?

The Greatness of God

⁵¶“The spirits of the dead tremble

Underneath the waters and their inhabitants.

⁶“Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God,

And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].

⁷“It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness

And hangs the earth on nothing.

⁸“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],

And the cloud does not burst under them.

⁹“He covers the face of the full moon[#26:9 Or throne .]

And spreads His cloud over it.

¹⁰“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters

At the boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹“The pillars of the heavens tremble

And are terrified at His rebuke.

¹²“He stirred up the sea by His power,

And by His understanding He smashed [proud] Rahab.

¹³“By His breath the heavens are cleared;

His hand has pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent. [Ps 33:6]

¹⁴“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],

The faintest whisper of His voice!

Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”