Job 26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

² “How you have helped one who has no power!
    How you have assisted the arm that has no strength!^(A)
3 How you have counseled one who has no wisdom
    and given much good advice!
⁴ With whose help have you uttered words,
    and whose spirit has come forth from you?
⁵ The shades below tremble,
    the waters and their inhabitants.
⁶ Sheol is naked before God,
    and Abaddon has no covering.^(B)
7 He stretches out Zaphon^[a] over the void
    and hangs the earth upon nothing.^(C)
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
    and the cloud is not torn open by them.^(D)
9 He covers the face of the full moon
    and spreads over it his cloud.^(E)
10 He has described a circle on the face of the waters,
    at the boundary between light and darkness.^(F)
11 The pillars of heaven tremble
    and are astounded at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he stilled the Sea;
    by his understanding he struck down Rahab.^(G)
13 By his wind the heavens were made fair;
    his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.^(H)
14 These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways,
    and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
    But the thunder of his power who can understand?”^(I)