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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="100%" valign="top">English Standard Version</tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“How you have helped him who has no power!</span><br /><span class="indent">How you have saved the arm that has no strength!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,</span><br /><span class="indent">and plentifully declared sound knowledge!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">With whose help have you uttered words,</span><br /><span class="indent">and whose breath has come out from you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The dead tremble</span><br /><span class="indent">under the waters and their inhabitants.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Sheol is naked before God,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew him">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and Abaddon has no covering.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He stretches out the north over the void</span><br /><span class="indent">and hangs the earth on nothing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the cloud is not split open under them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He covers the face of the full moon<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or his throne">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and spreads over it his cloud.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters</span><br /><span class="indent">at the boundary between light and darkness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The pillars of heaven tremble</span><br /><span class="indent">and are astounded at his rebuke.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">By his power he stilled the sea;</span><br /><span class="indent">by his understanding he shattered Rahab.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">By his wind the heavens were made fair;</span><br /><span class="indent">his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="../../par/job/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,</span><br /><span class="indent">and how small a whisper do we hear of him!</span><br /><span class="indent">But the thunder of his power who can understand?”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i>him</i><br /><span 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