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Job 26 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 26:1But Job answered and said,
Job 26:2To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist? is it not he that has much strength, and he who has a strong arm?
Job 26:3To whom hast thou given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom wilt thou follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?
Job 26:4To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from thee?
Job 26:5Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof?
Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
Job 26:7He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;
Job 26:8binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not rent under it.
Job 26:9He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.
Job 26:10He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.
Job 26:11The pillars of heaven are prostrate and astonished at his rebuke.
Job 26:12He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.
Job 26:13And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.
Job 26:14Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will hearken to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ it?
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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