Job 26  Complete Jewish Bible

26 Then Iyov replied,

² “What great help you bring to the powerless!
what deliverance to the arm without strength!
³ Such wonderful advice for a man lacking wisdom!
So much common sense you’ve expressed!
⁴ Who helped you to say these words?
Whose spirit is it, coming forth from you?

⁵ “The ghosts of the dead tremble
beneath the water, with its creatures.
⁶ Sh’ol is naked before him;
Abaddon lies uncovered.
⁷ He stretches the north over chaos
and suspends the earth on nothing.
⁸ He binds up the water in his thick clouds,
yet no cloud is torn apart by it.
⁹ He shuts off the view of his throne
by spreading his cloud across it.
¹⁰ He fixed a circle on the surface of the water,
defining the boundary between light and dark.
¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble,
aghast at his rebuke.
¹² He stirs up the sea with his power,
and by his skill he strikes down Rahav.
¹³ With his Spirit he spreads the heavens;
his hand pierces the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴ And these are but the fringes of his ways;
how faint the echo we hear of him!
But who is able to grasp the meaning
of his thundering power?”