26:1 Then Job replied:
26:2 “How you have helped1 the powerless!2
How you have saved the person who has no strength!3
26:3 How you have advised the one without wisdom,
and abundantly4 revealed your insight!
26:4 To whom5 did you utter these words?
And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?6
A Better Description of God’s Greatness7
those beneath the waters
and all that live in them.10
26:6 The underworld11 is naked before God;12
the place of destruction lies uncovered.13
26:7 He spreads out the northern skies14 over empty space;15
he suspends the earth on nothing.16
26:8 He locks the waters in his clouds,
and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
26:9 He conceals17 the face of the full moon,18
shrouding it with his clouds.
26:10 He marks out the horizon19 on the surface of the waters
as a boundary between light and darkness.
26:11 The pillars20 of the heavens tremble
and are amazed at his rebuke.21
26:12 By his power he stills22 the sea;
by his wisdom he cut the great sea monster23 to pieces.24
26:13 By his breath25 the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.26
26:14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways!27
How faint is the whisper28 we hear of him!
But who can understand the thunder of his power?”
A Protest of Innocence