Job 26
1 But Job answered and said,
Then Job made answer and said,
2 To whom do you attach yourself, or whom are you going to assist? is it not he that [has] much strength, and [he] who has a strong arm?
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
3 To whom have you given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom will you follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?
How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from you?
To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
5 Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof?
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
8 binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not tore under it.
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
9 He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.
By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
10 He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.
By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
11 The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke.
The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
12 He has calmed the sea with [his] might, and by [his] wisdom the whale has been overthrown.
By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
13 And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.
By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
14 Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will listen to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ [it]?
See, 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.
