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Job 26
New King James Version

### Job: Man’s Frailty and God’s Majesty

26 But Job answered and said:

2 “How have you helped him who is without power?
How have you saved the arm that has no strength?
3 How have you counseled one who has no wisdom?
And how have you declared sound advice to many?
4 To whom have you uttered words?
And whose spirit came from you?

5 “The dead tremble,
Those under the waters and those inhabiting them.
6 (A)Sheol is naked before Him,
And Destruction has no covering.
7 (B)He stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.
8 (C)He binds up the water in His thick clouds,
Yet the clouds [a]are not broken under it.
9 He covers the face of His throne,
And spreads His cloud over it.
10 (D)He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters,
At the boundary of light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble,
And are [b]astonished at His rebuke.
12 (E)He stirs up the sea with His power,
And by His understanding He breaks up [c]the storm.
13 (F)By His Spirit He adorned the heavens;
His hand pierced (G)the fleeing serpent.
14 Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways,
And how small a whisper we hear of Him!
But the thunder of His power who can understand?”

#### Footnotes

1. Job 26:8 do not break
2. Job 26:11 amazed
3. Job 26:12 Heb. rahab

#### Cross references

1. Job 26:6 : [Ps. 139:8]; Prov. 15:11; [Heb. 4:13]
2. Job 26:7 : Job 9:8; Ps. 24:2; 104:2
3. Job 26:8 : Job 37:11; Prov. 30:4
4. Job 26:10 : [Job 38:1–11]; Ps. 33:7; 104:9; Prov. 8:29; Jer. 5:22
5. Job 26:12 : Ex. 14:21; Job 9:13; Is. 51:15; [Jer. 31:35]
6. Job 26:13 : [Job 9:8]; Ps. 33:6
7. Job 26:13 : Is. 27:1

New King James Version (NKJV)

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