Job 26:1-13 ▼

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 What help you give to the powerless, what strength to the feeble arm!

3 How you give counsel to one without wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!

4 With whose help have you uttered those words, whose breath comes forth from you?

5 The shades beneath writhe in terror, the waters, and their inhabitants.

6 Naked before him is Sheol, and Abaddon has no covering.

7 He stretches out Zaphon over the void, and suspends the earth over nothing at all;

8 He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not split by their weight;

9 He holds back the appearance of the full moon by spreading his clouds before it.

10 He has marked out a circle on the surface of the deep as the boundary of light and darkness.

11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;

12 By his power he stilled Sea, by his skill he crushed Rahab;

13 By his wind the heavens were made clear, his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.