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1 Then Job answered and said,
1 Then Job answered,
2 “How you have helped one who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
2 “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
3 How you have advised one who has no wisdom and announced to him sound knowledge!
3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 With whose help have you spoken these words? Whose spirit was it that came out from you?
4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
5 The dead are made to tremble, those who are beneath the waters and all who dwell in them.
5 “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 Sheol is naked before God; destruction itself has no covering against him.
6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 He stretches out the northern skies over the empty space, and he hangs the earth over nothing.
7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds are not torn under them.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
9 He covers the surface of the moon and spreads his clouds on it.
9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
10 He has engraved a circular boundary on the surface of the waters as the line between light and darkness.
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 astonished at his rebuke.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
12 He calmed the sea with his power; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
13 By his breath he made the skies clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
14 See, these are but the fringes of his ways; how small a whisper do we hear of him! Who can understand the thunder of his power?”
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)