Job 26:1-13 ▼

1 Then Job replied:

2 |How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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