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Job Replies: God's Majesty Is Unsearchable

 Then Job answered and said:

² “How you have helped him who has no power!
How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
³ How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
⁴ With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose breath has come out from you?
⁵ The dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
⁶ Sheol is naked before God,^[a]
and Abaddon has no covering.
⁷ He stretches out the north over the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
⁸ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not split open under them.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon^[b]
and spreads over it his cloud.
¹⁰ He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astounded at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he stilled the sea;
by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
¹³ By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴ Behold, these are 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?”

Footnotes:

1. Job 26:6 Hebrew him
2. Job 26:9 Or his throne

Cross references:

1. Job 26:2 : Isa. 40:29
2. Job 26:2 : Gen. 49:24; Hos. 7:15
3. Job 26:3 : Ps. 73:24; James 1:5
4. Job 26:4 : Gen. 2:7
5. Job 26:5 : Ps. 88:10
6. Job 26:6 : Ps. 139:8; Prov. 15:11
7. Job 26:6 : Rev. 9:11
8. Job 26:7 : See ch. 9:8
9. Job 26:7 : [Gen. 1:2]
10. Job 26:8 : Prov. 30:4
11. Job 26:9 : [ch. 36:29]
12. Job 26:10 : Prov. 8:29; [ch. 38:8-11; Ps. 33:7; Jer. 5:22]
13. Job 26:11 : ch. 9:6; Ps. 75:3
14. Job 26:11 : Ps. 104:7
15. Job 26:12 : Isa. 51:15; Jer. 31:35
16. Job 26:12 : See ch. 9:13
17. Job 26:13 : [Ps. 33:6]
18. Job 26:13 : Isa. 27:1
19. Job 26:14 : ch. 40:19
20. Job 26:14 : ch. 4:12