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Job 26 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job 26:1Then Job answered:
Job 26:2"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
Job 26:3How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Job 26:4With whose help have you uttered words, and whose spirit has come forth from you?

The Greatness of God

Job 26:5The shades below tremble, the waters and their inhabitants.
Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job 26:9He covers the face of the moon, and spreads over it his cloud.
Job 26:10He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Job 26:11The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.
Job 26:12By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he smote Rahab.
Job 26:13By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Job 26:14Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
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