Job 26

Job's Rebuke and Cosmic Doxology

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Overview

Job first rebukes Bildad's empty counsel with sharp sarcasm, then delivers a sweeping hymn to God's sovereignty over creation and the realm of the dead, confessing that even these wonders are only the outermost fringe of divine power.

Passages

1–4Words Without Weight: Job's Rebuke of Empty Counsel 5–6Nothing Hidden from God: Sovereignty Over the Realm of the Dead 7–13God's Majestic Works in Creation 14The Outskirts of His Ways: Standing at the Edge of the Infinite

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Job 26

¹Then Job answered,

²“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

³How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

⁴To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

⁵“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

⁶Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

⁷He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

⁸He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

⁹He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

¹⁰He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

¹²He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

¹³By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

¹⁴Behold, 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?”

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