26:1 Then Job replied:

26:2 "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

26:3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!

26:4 Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

26:5 "The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

26:6 Death is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.

26:7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

26:8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

26:9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.

26:10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.

26:11 The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.

26:12 By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

26:13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

26:14 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?"