Job26

Job – Chapter 26

Job’s Reply

1Then Job answered and said:

2What help you give to the powerless,

what strength to the feeble arm!

3How you give counsel to one without wisdom;

how profuse is the advice you offer!

4With whose help have you uttered those words,

whose breath comes forth from you?

5The shades beneath writhe in terror,

the waters, and their inhabitants.

6Naked before him is Sheol,

and Abaddon has no covering.

7He stretches out Zaphon over the void,

and suspends the earth over nothing at all;

8He binds up the waters in his clouds,

yet the cloud is not split by their weight;

9He holds back the appearance of the full moon

by spreading his clouds before it.

10He has marked out a circle on the surface of the deep

as the boundary of light and darkness.

11The pillars of the heavens tremble

and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;

12By his power he stilled Sea,

by his skill he crushed Rahab;

13By his wind the heavens were made clear,

his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. 

14Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways,

and what a whisper of a word we hear of him:

Who can comprehend the thunder of his power?

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THE REVISED NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)