Job 26

1. ¹Then Job answered,
2. ²"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
3. ³How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4. ⁴To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
5. ⁵"Those who are deceased tremble, Those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6. ⁶Sheol^a is naked before God, And Abaddon^b has no covering.
7. ⁷He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.
8. ⁸He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.
9. ⁹He encloses the face of his throne, And spreads his cloud on it.
10. ¹⁰He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, And to the confines of light and darkness.
11. ¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.
12. ¹²He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
13. ¹³By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
14. ¹⁴Behold, 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?"

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