Job 26

1Then Job made answer and said,

1And Job answereth and saith: --

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

2What--thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong!

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

3What--thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.

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

4With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?

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

5The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.

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

6Naked <FI>is<Fi> Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

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

7Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

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

8Binding 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.

9Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud.

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

10A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

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

11Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.

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

12By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud.

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

13By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand 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 <FI>are<Fi> the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?