NET Bible

Job’s Reply to Bildad1

^26:1 Then Job replied:

^26:2 “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength! ^26:3 How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight! ^26:4 To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

A Better Description of God’s Greatness8

^26:5 “The dead tremble — those beneath the waters and all that live in them. ^26:6 The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered. ^26:7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing. ^26:8 He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them. ^26:9 He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds. ^26:10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness. ^26:11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke. ^26:12 By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces. ^26:13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. ^26:14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”