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Job: God is Awesome

26 Then Job responded and said:

“How you have helped the powerless!
    How you have saved the arm without strength!
How you have counseled the one without wisdom
    and revealed your abundant insights!
To whom have you uttered words?
    Whose spirit has come from your mouth?

“The dead tremble—those beneath the water
    and all that live in them.
Sheol is naked before Him;
    Abaddon has no covering.[a]
He stretches out the north over the void;
    He suspendsthe earth over nothing.
He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
    yet the clouds do not burst under them.
He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading His clouds over it.
10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters,
    for a boundary between light and dark.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble,
    astounded at His rebuke!
12 By His power He churns up the sea;
    by His understanding He smashed Rahab.
13 By His Ruach the heavens are clear;
    His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 Indeed, these are but glimpses of His ways; how faint the whisper, we hear of Him!
Who then can understand the thunder of His might?”

Footnotes

  1. Job 26:6 cf. Heb. 4:13; Rev. 9:11.

Job

26 Then Job replied:

“How you have helped the powerless!(A)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!(B)
What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight(C) you have displayed!
Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?(D)

“The dead are in deep anguish,(E)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
The realm of the dead(F) is naked before God;
    Destruction[a](G) lies uncovered.(H)
He spreads out the northern skies(I) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.(J)
He wraps up the waters(K) in his clouds,(L)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading his clouds(M) over it.
10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters(N)
    for a boundary between light and darkness.(O)
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,(P)
    aghast at his rebuke.
12 By his power he churned up the sea;(Q)
    by his wisdom(R) he cut Rahab(S) to pieces.
13 By his breath the skies(T) became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.(U)
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper(V) we hear of him!(W)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”(X)

Footnotes

  1. Job 26:6 Hebrew Abaddon