Job 26

Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable

1Then Job answered and said:

2“How you have helped him who has no power![#Isa. 40:29]

How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

3How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,[#Ps. 73:24; James 1:5]

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

4With whose help have you uttered words,

and whose breath has come out from you?

5The dead tremble[#Ps. 88:10]

under the waters and their inhabitants.

6Sheol is naked before God,[#Ps. 139:8; Prov. 15:11; #26:6 Hebrew]

and Abaddon has no covering.

7He stretches out the north over the void[#9:8; #Gen. 1:2]

and hangs the earth on nothing.

8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,[#Prov. 30:4]

and the cloud is not split open under them.

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

and spreads over it his cloud.

10He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters[#Prov. 8:29; 38:8-11; Ps. 33:7; Jer. 5:22]

at the boundary between light and darkness.

11The pillars of heaven tremble[#9:6; Ps. 75:3]

and are astounded at his rebuke.

12By his power he stilled the sea;[#Isa. 51:15; Jer. 31:35]

by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

13By his wind the heavens were made fair;[#Ps. 33:6]

his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,[#40:19]

and how small a whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

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