Job 26 – Studienbibel

1 And Job answered and said,

2 How have ŷou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!

3 How have ŷou counseled him that has no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

4 For whom have ŷou uttered words? and whose spirit came from ŷou?

5 The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants of it;

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

7 He stretches out the north over empty space, he hangs the earth upon nothing;

8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not torn under them.

9 He covers the face of his throne, he spreads his cloud upon it.

10 He has traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

12 He stirs up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smites through Rahab.

13 By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand has formed the fleeing serpent.

14 Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?