Job 26

¹ Then Job spoke again and said:

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

³ How you counsel, as though he had no wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!

⁴ With whose help have you uttered those words, and whose is the breath that comes forth from you?

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

⁶ Naked before him is the nether world, and Abaddon has no covering.

⁷ He stretches out the North over empty space, and suspends the earth over nothing at all;

⁸ He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not rent 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 stirs up the sea, and by his might he crushes Rahab;

¹³ With his angry breath he scatters the waters, and he hurls the lightning against them relentlessly; His hand pierces the fugitive dragon as from his hand it strives to flee.

¹⁴ Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and how faint is the word we hear!