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Job 26 Catholic Public Domain Version

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1 Then Job responded by saying:
1 Then Job answered,
2 Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong?
2 “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
3 To whom have you given advice? Perhaps it is to him that has no wisdom or prudence that you have revealed your many ideas.
3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 Who is it that you wanted to teach? Was it not him that created the breath of life?
4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
5 Behold, giant things groan under the waters, and they dwell with them.
5 “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 The underworld is naked before him, and there is no covering for perdition.
6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.
7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He secures the waters in his clouds, so that they do not burst forth downward all at once.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
9 He holds back the face of his throne, and he stretches his cloud over it.
9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
10 He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit.
10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are frightened at his nod.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
12 By his strength, the seas suddenly gather together, and his foresight has struck the arrogant.
12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
13 His spirit has adorned the heavens, and his birthing hand has brought forth the winding serpent.
13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
14 Behold, these things have been said about his ways in part, and, since we barely have heard a small drop of his word, who will be able to gaze upon the thunder of his greatness?
14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
Cross references (13)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Job 4:3–4; Isaiah 35:3–4; Psalm 71:9; Job 6:12; Job 16:4–5
  2. 3 Job 32:11–13; Job 33:3; Job 12:3; Job 33:33; Acts 20:20
  3. 4 1 Kings 22:23–24; Ecclesiastes 12:7; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Job 32:18; 1 John 4:1–3
  4. 5 Psalm 88:10; Genesis 6:4; Job 41:1–34; Ezekiel 29:3–5; Psalm 104:25–26
  5. 6 Psalm 139:8; Proverbs 15:11; Hebrews 4:13; Amos 9:2; Job 28:22
  6. 7 Job 9:8; Psalm 104:2–5; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 24:2
  7. 8 Job 37:11–16; Proverbs 30:4; Jeremiah 10:13; Isaiah 5:6; Psalm 135:7
  8. 9 Psalm 97:2; Job 22:14; Exodus 20:21; Exodus 34:3; Habakkuk 3:3–5
  9. 10 Proverbs 8:29; Job 38:8–11; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 33:7; Isaiah 54:9–10
  10. 11 1 Samuel 2:8; Job 15:15; Psalm 18:7; Haggai 2:21; Hebrews 12:26–27
  11. 12 Isaiah 51:15; Jeremiah 31:35; Job 12:13; Job 9:13; Psalm 89:9–10
  12. 13 Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 104:30; Psalm 74:13–14; Psalm 33:6–7; Genesis 1:2
  13. 14 Isaiah 40:26–29; Romans 11:33; Psalm 139:6; Psalm 145:3; Job 11:7–9

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 26:8 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture IX)

    Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth: and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom: and, the cloud is not rent under Him.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  2. Quotes verse 26:7 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book II, Chapters X–XI)

    Again some other says, He Who hangeth the earth on nothing.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)