Job 26
Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?
¹ Then Job answered:
² “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
³ How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
⁴ To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
⁵ The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
⁶ Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon 1 has no covering.
⁷ He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
⁸ He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,2 spreading over it His cloud.
¹⁰ He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
¹¹ The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
¹² By His power He stirred 3 the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
¹³ By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.4
¹⁴ Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”