NETtext - Job - 26

26:1  Then Job replied:

26:2  "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

26:3  How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

26:4  To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

26:5  "The dead tremble - those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

26:6  The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

26:7  He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

26:8  He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

26:9  He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

26:10  He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

26:11  The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.

26:12  By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

26:13  By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

26:14  Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"