Job 26:5-14
Holman Christian Standard Bible
5 The departed spirits tremble
beneath the waters and all that inhabit them.(A)
6 Sheol(B) is naked before God,
and Abaddon(C) has no covering.(D)
7 He stretches the northern skies over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.(E)
9 He obscures the view of His throne,
spreading His cloud over it.
10 He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters(F)
at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars that hold up the sky tremble,
astounded at His rebuke.(G)
12 By His power He stirred(H) the sea,
and by His understanding He crushed Rahab.(I)
13 By His breath the heavens gained their beauty;
His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.[a](J)
14 These are but the fringes of His ways;
how faint is the word we hear of Him!
Who can understand His mighty thunder?
Footnotes
- Job 26:13 = Leviathan
Job 26:5-14
Lexham English Bible
5 “The spirits of the dead tremble
below the waters and their inhabitants.
6 Sheol is naked before him,
and there is no covering for Abaddon.
7 He stretches out the north over emptiness;
he hangs the earth over nothing.[a]
8 He ties up the water in its clouds,
and the cloud is not torn open beneath it.[b]
9 He covers the face of the full moon;[c]
he spreads his cloud over it.
10 He has described a circle[d] on the face of the water
between light and darkness.[e]
11 “The pillars of heaven tremble,
and they are astounded at his rebuke.
12 By his power he stilled the sea,
and by his understanding he struck down Rahab.
13 By his breath the heavens were made clear;[f]
his hand pierced the fleeing snake.
14 Look, these are the outer fringes of his ways,
and how faint is the word[g] that we hear of him!
But[h] who can understand the thunder of his power?”
Footnotes
- Job 26:7 Literally “over not what”
- Job 26:8 Hebrew “them”; antecedent for “them” is “water” (literally “waters”)
- Job 26:9 Text reads “throne”; “full moon” is based on a change of the vowels
- Job 26:10 NRSV; literally “a limit he has circled”
- Job 26:10 Literally “at the end of light with darkness”
- Job 26:13 Literally “heavens clearness”
- Job 26:14 Literally “how whisper of word”
- Job 26:14 Hebrew “And”
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