Job 26

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

In response to his companions, Job begins with irony, sarcastically questioning how they have helped the powerless and advised the unwise. He then directs the conversation to the vast power and majesty of God over the physical universe and the unseen realm. Job describes how God stretches the northern sky over empty space, suspends the earth upon nothing, and contains waters within His clouds without bursting them. He notes that God covers the full moon, marks a boundary between light and darkness on the waters, and makes the foundations of heaven quake at His rebuke. Furthermore, Job explains that God stirs the sea by His power, shatters Rahab by His understanding, and clears the skies with His breath while piercing the fleeing serpent. Finally, Job concludes that these magnificent acts are merely the fringes of God's ways and a faint whisper of His ultimate power.

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¹Then Job answered: ²“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble! ³How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight! ⁴To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you? ⁵The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them. ⁶Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. ⁷He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing. ⁸He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight. ⁹He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud. ¹⁰He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. ¹¹The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke. ¹²By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab. ¹³By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. ¹⁴Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

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