1 Job replied, 2 “How helpful you have been to this feeble man that I am. How supportive you have been to the weak. 3 What good advice you have given to this ignorant man, demonstrating you have so much wisdom. 4 Who helped you speak these words? Who inspired you to say such things? 5 The dead tremble, those beneath the waters. 6 Sheol lies naked before God, Abaddon is uncovered. 7 He stretches the northern sky over empty space; he hangs the world on nothing. 8 He gathers the rain in his storm clouds which do not break under the weight. 9 He veils his throne; covering it with his clouds. 10 On the surface of the waters he set a boundary; he set a limit dividing light from darkness. 11 The pillars of heaven tremble; they shake with fear at his rebuke. 12 He calmed the sea with his power; because he knew what to do, he crushed Rahab. 13 The breath of his voice made the heavens beautiful; with his hand he pierced the gliding serpent. 14 This is just a little of all he does—what we hear of him is hardly a whisper, so who can understand his thunderous power?”
Job 26 Free Bible Version
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Cross references (13)
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- 2 Job 4:3–4; Isaiah 35:3–4; Psalm 71:9; Job 6:12; Job 16:4–5
- 3 Job 32:11–13; Job 33:3; Job 12:3; Job 33:33; Acts 20:20
- 4 1 Kings 22:23–24; Ecclesiastes 12:7; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Job 32:18; 1 John 4:1–3
- 5 Psalm 88:10; Genesis 6:4; Job 41:1–34; Ezekiel 29:3–5; Psalm 104:25–26
- 6 Psalm 139:8; Proverbs 15:11; Hebrews 4:13; Amos 9:2; Job 28:22
- 7 Job 9:8; Psalm 104:2–5; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 24:2
- 8 Job 37:11–16; Proverbs 30:4; Jeremiah 10:13; Isaiah 5:6; Psalm 135:7
- 9 Psalm 97:2; Job 22:14; Exodus 20:21; Exodus 34:3; Habakkuk 3:3–5
- 10 Proverbs 8:29; Job 38:8–11; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 33:7; Isaiah 54:9–10
- 11 1 Samuel 2:8; Job 15:15; Psalm 18:7; Haggai 2:21; Hebrews 12:26–27
- 12 Isaiah 51:15; Jeremiah 31:35; Job 12:13; Job 9:13; Psalm 89:9–10
- 13 Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 104:30; Psalm 74:13–14; Psalm 33:6–7; Genesis 1:2
- 14 Isaiah 40:26–29; Romans 11:33; Psalm 139:6; Psalm 145:3; Job 11:7–9
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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).
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“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).
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)
Again some other says, He Who hangeth the earth on nothing.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)