Job - Chapter 26 | Good News Translation

  • 1. What a big help you are to me--- poor, weak man that I am!
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 26:1)}
  • 3. You give such good advice and share your knowledge with a fool like me!
  • 4. Who do you think will hear all your words? Who inspired you to speak like this?
  • 5. The spirits of the dead tremble in the waters under the earth.
  • 6. The world of the dead lies open to God; no covering shields it from his sight.
  • 7. God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.
  • 8. It is God who fills the clouds with water and keeps them from bursting with the weight.
  • 9. He hides the full moon behind a cloud.
  • 10. He divided light from darkness by a circle drawn on the face of the sea.
  • 11. When he threatens the pillars that hold up the sky, they shake and tremble with fear.
  • 12. It is his strength that conquered the sea; by his skill he destroyed the monster Rahab.
  • 13. It is his breath that made the sky clear, and his hand that killed the escaping monster.
  • 14. But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?
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