Job 26
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- 1Then Job answered,
- 2“How have you helped him who is without power!
How have you saved the arm that has no strength! - 3How have you counselled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge! - 4To whom have you uttered words?
Whose spirit came out of you? - 5“The departed spirits tremble,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them. - 6Sheol is naked before God,
and Abaddon has no covering.Sheol is the place of the dead. Abaddon means Destroyer. - 7He stretches out the north over empty space,
and hangs the earth on nothing. - 8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not burst under them. - 9He encloses the face of his throne,
and spreads his cloud on it. - 10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,
and to the confines of light and darkness. - 11The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astonished at his rebuke. - 12He stirs up the sea with his power,
and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab. - 13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.
His hand has pierced the swift serpent. - 14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.
How small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?”