26:1 BUT JOB answered, |
26:2 How you have helped him who is without power! How you have sustained the arm that is without strength! |
26:3 How you have counseled him who has no wisdom! And how plentifully you have declared to him sound knowledge! |
26:4 With whose assistance have you uttered these words? And whose spirit [inspired what] came forth from you? |
26:5 The shades of the dead tremble underneath the waters and their inhabitants. |
26:6 Sheol (the place of the dead) is naked before God, and Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes]. |
26:7 He it is Who spreads out the northern skies over emptiness and hangs the earth upon {or} over nothing. |
26:8 He holds the waters bound in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once], and the cloud is not rent under them. |
26:9 He covers the face of His throne and spreads over it His cloud. |
26:10 He has placed an enclosing limit [the horizon] upon the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. |
26:11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at His rebuke. |
26:12 He stills {or} stirs up the sea by His power, and by His understanding He smites proud Rahab. |
26:13 By His breath the heavens are garnished; His hand pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent. |
26:14 Yet these are but [a small part of His doings] the outskirts of His ways {or} the mere fringes of His force, the faintest whisper of His voice! Who dares contemplate {or} who can understand the thunders of His full, magnificent power? |