Job 26

¹Then Job answered:

²“How you have helped the powerless [and] saved the arm that is feeble!

³How you have counseled the unwise [and] provided fully sound insight!

⁴To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

⁵The dead tremble — those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

⁶Sheol is naked before [God], and Abaddon has no covering.

⁷He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

⁸He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

⁹He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

¹⁰He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

¹²By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

¹³By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

¹⁴Indeed, 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?”