BSB JOB Chapter 26

Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?

26 Then Job answered:

2 “How you have helped the powerless [and] saved the arm that is feeble

3 How you have counseled the unwise [and] provided fully sound insight!

4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

5 The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

6 Sheol is naked before [God], and Abaddon[fn] has no covering.

7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing

8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

9 He covers the face of the full moon,[fn] spreading over it His cloud.

10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

12 By His power He stirred[fn] the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.[fn]

14 Indeed, these [are] but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”