Job 26

Job Answers Bildad

¹Then Job answered:

²“You are no help to a person who has no strength!

You have given no help to one whose arm is weak!

³You have given advice to me as if I had no wisdom!

This is not great wisdom you have shown!

⁴Who has helped you say these words?

And where did you get these words you speak?

⁵“The spirits of the dead beneath the waters shake.

And so do those that live in the waters.

⁶Death is naked before God.

Destruction is uncovered before him.

⁷God stretches the northern sky out over empty space.

And he hangs the earth on nothing.

⁸God wraps up the waters in his thick clouds.

But the clouds do not break under the weight of the water.

⁹God covers the face of the full moon.

He spreads his clouds over it.

¹⁰God draws the horizon like a circle on the water

at the place where light and darkness meet.

¹¹Heaven’s foundations shake

when he thunders at them.

¹²God’s power controls the sea.

By his wisdom he destroyed Rahab, the sea monster.

¹³God breathes, and the sky becomes clear.

God’s hand stabs the gliding snake.

¹⁴And these are only a small part of God’s works.

We only hear a small whisper of him.

So who can understand God’s thundering power?”