A Better Description of God’s Greatness

5 “The dead tremble –

those beneath the waters

and all that live in them.

6 The underworld is naked before God;

the place of destruction lies uncovered.

7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;

he suspends the earth on nothing.

8 He locks the waters in his clouds,

and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

9 He conceals the face of the full moon,

shrouding it with his clouds.

10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters

as a boundary between light and darkness.

11 The pillars of the heavens tremble

and are amazed at his rebuke.

12 By his power he stills the sea;

by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

13 By his breath the skies became fair;

his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

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?”

27 And Job took up his discourse again:

2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,

the Almighty, who has made my life bitter –

3 for while my spirit is still in me,

and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

4 my lips will not speak wickedness,

and my tongue will whisper no deceit.

5 I will never declare that you three are in the right;

until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

6 I will maintain my righteousness

and never let it go;

my conscience will not reproach me

for as long as I live.