Job 26 - New International Version (NIV)

Job

26 Then Job replied:

2 “How you have helped the powerless!(A)
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!(B)
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight(C) you have displayed!
4 Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?(D)

5 “The dead are in deep anguish,(E)
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 The realm of the dead(F) is naked before God;
Destruction[a](G) lies uncovered.(H)
7 He spreads out the northern skies(I) over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.(J)
8 He wraps up the waters(K) in his clouds,(L)
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading his clouds(M) over it.
10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters(N)
for a boundary between light and darkness.(O)
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,(P)
aghast at his rebuke.
12 By his power he churned up the sea;(Q)
by his wisdom(R) he cut Rahab(S) to pieces.
13 By his breath the skies(T) became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent.(U)
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper(V) we hear of him!(W)
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”(X)

Footnotes

  1. Job 26:6 Hebrew Abaddon

Cross references

  1. Job 26:2 : Job 6:12
  2. Job 26:2 : S Job 4:3
  3. Job 26:3 : Job 34:35
  4. Job 26:4 : 1Ki 22:24
  5. Job 26:5 : Ps 88:10; Isa 14:9; 26:14
  6. Job 26:6 : Ps 139:8
  7. Job 26:6 : S Job 20:26; S Rev 9:11
  8. Job 26:6 : Job 10:22; 11:8; 38:17; 41:11; Ps 139:11-12; Pr 15:11; S Heb 4:13
  9. Job 26:7 : Job 9:8
  10. Job 26:7 : Job 38:6; Ps 104:5; Pr 3:19-20; 8:27; Isa 40:22
  11. Job 26:8 : Pr 30:4
  12. Job 26:8 : S Ge 1:2; Job 36:27; 37:11; Ps 147:8
  13. Job 26:9 : S 2Sa 22:10; S Job 22:14
  14. Job 26:10 : Pr 8:27, 29; Isa 40:22
  15. Job 26:10 : S Ge 1:4; S Job 28:3; 38:8-11
  16. Job 26:11 : S 2Sa 22:8
  17. Job 26:12 : S Ex 14:21
  18. Job 26:12 : Job 12:13
  19. Job 26:12 : S Job 9:13
  20. Job 26:13 : Job 9:8
  21. Job 26:13 : Isa 27:1
  22. Job 26:14 : Job 4:12
  23. Job 26:14 : Job 42:5; Hab 3:2; 1Co 13:12
  24. Job 26:14 : S Job 9:6