Job 26

Job Chapter 26 ESV

1Job reproveth Bildad; 5but acknowledgeth God's power and wisdom to be infinite and unsearchable.
1 Then Job answered and said:
2 “How you have 1helped him who has no power! How you have saved 2the arm that has no strength!
3 How you have 1counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath 1has come out from you?
5 The 1dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
6 Sheol is 1naked before God,a and 2Abaddon has no covering.
7 He 1stretches out the north over 2the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He 1binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
9 He covers the face of the full moona and 1spreads over it his cloud.
10 He has inscribed 1a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 1The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his 2rebuke.
12 By his power he 1stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered 2Rahab.
13 1By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced 2the fleeing serpent.
14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his 1ways, and how small 2a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
Job 26

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