Job 26

1Then Job answered:

2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

3How you have counseled one without wisdom, and what abundant insight you have made known!

4Who helped you utter these words? Whose breath has come out of you?

5The dead tremble beneath the waters, and those who live in them.

6Sheol is naked before him, and Abaddon has no covering.

7He stretches out the north over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

9He veils the face of his throne and spreads his cloud over it.

10He has marked out a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.

11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.

12By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he struck down Rahab.

13By his breath the heavens became clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

14Look, these are only the fringes of his ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of him! But the thunder of his power—who can understand it?”