Job 26 — NETB

26Verse 1Then Job replied:^{Verse 2}“How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the person who has no strength!
^{Verse 3}How you have advised the one without wisdom,
and abundantly revealed your insight!
^{Verse 4}To whom did you utter these words?
And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

A Better Description of God’s Greatness

^{Verse 5}“The dead tremble –
those beneath the waters
and all that live in them.
^{Verse 6}The underworld is naked before God;
the place of destruction lies uncovered.
^{Verse 7}He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth on nothing.
^{Verse 8}He locks the waters in his clouds,
and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
^{Verse 9}He conceals the face of the full moon,
shrouding it with his clouds.
^{Verse 10}He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters
as a boundary between light and darkness.
^{Verse 11}The pillars of the heavens tremble
and are amazed at his rebuke.
^{Verse 12}By his power he stills the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.
^{Verse 13}By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
^{Verse 14}Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways!
How faint is the whisper we hear of him!
But who can understand the thunder of his power?”