The Book of Job

chapter 26


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verse #1

Then Job answered,


verse #2

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!


verse #3

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!


verse #4

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?


verse #5

“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.


verse #6

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


verse #7

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.


verse #8

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.


verse #9

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.


verse #10

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.


verse #11

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.


verse #12

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.


verse #13

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.


verse #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?”

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