Job 26 26 Job Job and his friends Darby Translation Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty? 1 DBY And Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 DBY How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength! BSB BSB: “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 DBY How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is! BSB BSB: How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 DBY For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? BSB BSB: To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
5 DBY The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof; BSB BSB: The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
6 DBY Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. BSB BSB: Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 DBY He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing; BSB BSB: He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 DBY He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. BSB BSB: He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9 DBY He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it. BSB BSB: He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 DBY He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness. BSB BSB: He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 DBY The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. BSB BSB: The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 DBY He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. BSB BSB: By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
13 DBY By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent. BSB BSB: By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 DBY Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand? BSB BSB: Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
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