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Job 26 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Job 26:1

Job 26:1Then Job made answer and said,

Job 26:2

Job 26:2How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

Job 26:3

Job 26:3How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

Job 26:4

Job 26:4To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

The Greatness of God

Job 26:5

Job 26:5The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

Job 26:6

Job 26:6The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

Job 26:7

Job 26:7By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

Job 26:8

Job 26:8By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

Job 26:9

Job 26:9By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

Job 26:10

Job 26:10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Job 26:11

Job 26:11The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

Job 26:12

Job 26:12By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

Job 26:13

Job 26:13By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Job 26:14

Job 26:14See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
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