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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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/job/26.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Job</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job replied:</p> <div class="stanza"><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 arm that is feeble!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!</p><p class="line2">And what great insight you have displayed!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who has helped you utter these words?</p><p class="line2">And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“The dead are in deep anguish,</p><p class="line2">those beneath the waters and all that live in them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The realm of the dead is naked before God;</p><p class="line2">Destruction <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Abaddon">a</a></sup></span> lies uncovered.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;</p><p class="line2">he suspends the earth over nothing.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He wraps up the waters in his clouds,</p><p class="line2">yet the clouds do not burst under their 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 full moon,</p><p class="line2">spreading his clouds over it.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters</p><p class="line2">for a boundary between light and darkness.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The pillars of the heavens quake,</p><p class="line2">aghast 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 he churned up the sea;</p><p class="line2">by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>By his breath the skies became fair;</p><p class="line2">his hand 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>And these are but the outer fringe of his works;</p><p class="line2">how faint the whisper we hear of him!</p><p class="line2">Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Abaddon</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New 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