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?