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Job 26 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Who Can Understand God?

Job 26:1

Then Job answered and said,

Job 26:2

“What a help you are to the one without power!

How you have saved the arm without strength!

Job 26:3

“What counsel you have given to one without wisdom!

What sound wisdom you have abundantly made known!

Job 26:4

“To whom have you declared words?

And whose breath comes out from you?

Job 26:5

“The [fn]departed spirits tremble

Under the waters and their inhabitants.

Job 26:6

“Naked is Sheol before Him,

And [fn]Abaddon has no covering.

Job 26:7

“He stretches out the north over what is formless

And hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:8

“He wraps up the waters in His clouds,

And the cloud does not break out under them.

Job 26:9

“He [fn]obscures the face of His [fn]throne

And spreads His cloud over it.

Job 26:10

“He has marked a circle on the surface of the waters

At the boundary of light and darkness.

Job 26:11

“The pillars of heaven tremble

And are astonished at His rebuke.

Job 26:12

“He quieted the sea with His power,

And by His understanding He crushed Rahab.

Job 26:13

“By His breath the heavens are made beautiful;

His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 26:14

“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;

And how only with a whisper of a word do we hear of Him!

But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”

LSB Footnotes
Or shades; Heb Rephaim
Lit the realm of destruction
Lit covers
Or full moon
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