Job 26
Job Rebukes Bildad
1 Then Job responded,2 “What a help you are to ▼
▼Lit no strength
bthe weak! You have saved the arm cwithout strength!
3 “What advice you have given to one without wisdom!
What helpful insight you have abundantly ▼
▼Lit made known
provided! 4 “To whom have you uttered words?
And whose ▼
▼Lit breath has gone forth
spirit was expressed through you? The Greatness of God
5 “The ▼
▼Or shades; Heb Rephaim
gdeparted spirits are made to tremble Under the waters and their inhabitants.
6 “ ▼
▼I.e., the netherworld
iSheol is naked before Him, And ▼
▼I.e., the place of destruction
kAbaddon has no covering. 7 “He lstretches out the north over empty space
And hangs the earth on nothing.
8 “He mwraps up the waters in His clouds,
And the cloud does not burst under them.
9 “He ▼
▼Lit covers
oobscures the face of the ▼▼Or throne
full moon And spreads His cloud over it.
10 “He has inscribed a qcircle on the surface of the waters
At the rboundary of light and darkness.
11 “The pillars of heaven tremble
And are amazed at His rebuke.
12 “With His power He squieted the sea,
And by His tunderstanding He shattered ▼
▼I.e., a sea monster, not to be confused with Rahab in Joshua 2
vRahab. 13 “By His breath the wheavens are ▼
▼Lit beauty
cleared; His hand has pierced ythe fleeing serpent.
14 “Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;
And how faint za word we hear of Him!
But His mighty aathunder, who can understand?”
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