Job 25-26

Job 25

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

²Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.

³Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

⁴How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

⁵See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

⁶How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

Job 26

¹Then Job made answer and said,

²How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

³How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

⁴To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

⁵The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

⁶The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

⁷By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

⁸By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

⁹By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

¹⁰By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

¹¹The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

¹²By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

¹³By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

¹⁴See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.