Job 26
¹ Then Job answered,
² “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
³ How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
⁴ To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
⁵ “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
⁶ Sheol1 is naked before God, and Abaddon2 has no covering.
⁷ He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
⁸ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
⁹ He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
¹⁰ He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
¹² He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
¹³ By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
¹⁴ Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”