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title="Job 25">◄</a> Job 26 <a href="../job/27.htm" title="Job 27">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/26.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job’s Ninth Speech: A Response to Bildad</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job spoke again:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“How you have helped the powerless!</p><p class="line2">How you have saved the weak!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>How you have enlightened my stupidity!</p><p class="line2">What wise advice you have offered!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Where have you gotten all these wise sayings?</p><p class="line2">Whose spirit speaks through you?</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“The dead tremble—</p><p class="line2">those who live beneath the waters.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The underworld<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> is naked in God’s presence.</p><p class="line2">The place of destruction<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> is uncovered.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>God stretches the northern sky over empty space</p><p class="line2">and hangs the earth on nothing.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,</p><p class="line2">and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He covers the face of the moon,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line2">shrouding it with his clouds.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He created the horizon when he separated the waters;</p><p class="line2">he set the boundary between day and night.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The foundations of heaven tremble;</p><p class="line2">they shudder at his rebuke.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>By his power the sea grew calm.</p><p class="line2">By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His Spirit made the heavens beautiful,</p><p class="line2">and his power pierced the gliding serpent.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>These are just the beginning of all that he does,</p><p class="line2">merely a whisper of his power.</p><p class="line2">Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">26:6a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Sheol.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">26:6b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Abaddon.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">26:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">covers his throne.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">26:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Rahab,</span><span class="ft"> the name of a mythical sea monster that represents chaos in ancient literature.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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