Job 26

1Then Job made answer and said,

1And Job answered and said,

2How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

2How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!

3How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

4To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

4For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

5The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

5The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;

6The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

6Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

7By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

8By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

9By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

9He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it.

10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

10He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

11The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

11The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

12By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

12He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

13By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

13By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent.

14See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

14Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?