Parallel Bible results for "Job 26"

Job 26

1 What a big help you are to me -

1 Then Job replied:

2 poor, weak man that I am!

2 “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

3 You give such good advice and share your knowledge with a fool like me!

3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!

4 Who do you think will hear all your words? Who inspired you to speak like this?

4 Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

5 The spirits of the dead tremble in the waters under the earth.

5 “The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

6 The world of the dead lies open to God; no covering shields it from his sight.

6 The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.

7 God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.

7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

8 It is God who fills the clouds with water and keeps them from bursting with the weight.

8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

9 He hides the full moon behind a cloud.

9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.

10 He divided light from darkness by a circle drawn on the face of the sea.

10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.

11 When he threatens the pillars that hold up the sky, they shake and tremble with fear.

11 The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.

12 It is his strength that conquered the sea; by his skill he destroyed the monster Rahab.

12 By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

13 It is his breath that made the sky clear, and his hand that killed the escaping monster.

13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

14 But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?

14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”