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Job 26 Young's Literal Translation

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1 And Job answereth and saith: —
1 Then Job answered,
2 What — thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong!
2 “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
3 What — thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.
3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?
4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
5 The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.
5 “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 Naked [is] Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.
6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,
7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
9 Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud.
9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
10 A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.
10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
11 Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
12 By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud.
12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
13 By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.
13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
14 Lo, these [are] the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?
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)