Job 26

Job’s Reply to Bildad

¹Then Job answered:²

³How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak!⁴

⁵How you have counseled the unwise and abundantly provided insight!⁶

⁷With whom did you speak these words? Whose breath came out of your mouth?⁸

⁹The departed spirits tremble beneath the waters and all that inhabit them.¹⁰

¹¹Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.¹²

¹³He stretches the northern skies over empty space; he hangs the earth on nothing.¹⁴

¹⁵He wraps up the water in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst beneath its weight.¹⁶

¹⁷He obscures the view of his throne, spreading his cloud over it.¹⁸

¹⁹He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.²⁰

²¹The pillars that hold up the sky tremble, astounded at his rebuke.²²

²³By his power he stirred the sea, and by his understanding he crushed Rahab.²⁴

²⁵By his breath the heavens gained their beauty; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.²⁶

²⁷These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?²⁸