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Job 26 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Job’s Reply to Bildad
Job 26:1

Then Job answered:

Job 26:2

How you have helped the powerless

and delivered the arm that is weak!

Job 26:3

How you have counseled the unwise

and abundantly provided insight!

Job 26:4

With whom did you speak these words?

Whose breath came out of your mouth?

Job 26:5

The departed spirits tremble

beneath the waters and all that inhabit them.

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God,

and Abaddon has no covering.

Job 26:7

He stretches the northern skies over empty space;

he hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:8

He wraps up the water in his clouds,

yet the clouds do not burst beneath its weight.

Job 26:9

He obscures the view of his throne,

spreading his cloud over it.

Job 26:10

He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

Job 26:11

The pillars that hold up the sky tremble,

astounded at his rebuke.

Job 26:12

By his power he stirred the sea,

and by his understanding he crushed Rahab.

Job 26:13

By his breath the heavens gained their beauty;

his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.[fn]

Job 26:14

These are but the fringes of his ways;

how faint is the word we hear of him!

Who can understand his mighty thunder?

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= Leviathan
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