Job, chapter 26

You Have Really Been Helpful

Job said:

²You have really been helpful to someone weak and weary.

³You have given great advice and wonderful wisdom

to someone truly in need.

⁴How can anyone possibly speak with such understandingI?

⁵Remember the terrible trembling

of those in the world of the dead

below the mighty ocean.

⁶Nothing in that land of deathI and destruction

is hidden from God, ⁷who hung the northern sky

and suspended the earth on empty space.

⁸God stores water in clouds, but they don't burst,

⁹and he wraps them around the face of the moon.

¹⁰On the surface of the ocean, God has drawn a boundary line

between light and darkness.

¹¹And columnsH supporting the sky tremble at his command.

¹²By his power and wisdom,

God conquered the force of the mighty ocean.*

¹³The heavens became bright when he breathed,

and the escaping sea monsterI* died at his hands.

¹⁴These things are merely a whisper of God's powerI at work.

How little we would understand

if this whisper ever turned into thunder!