1 Then Job answered and said: 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength! 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! 4 With whose help hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee? 5 The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. 6 The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering. 7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing. 8 He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He closeth in the face of His throne, and spreadeth His cloud upon it. 10 He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness. 11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at His rebuke. 12 He stirreth up the sea with His power, and by His understanding He smiteth through Rahab. 13 By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent. 14 Lo, these are but the outskirts of His ways; and how small a whisper is heard of Him! But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand?
Job 26 JPS Tanakh (1917)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
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)