Job 26:5-14

The Voice

⁵     The departed quiver below,
        down deep beneath the seas
        and all that is within them,
⁶     The land of the dead is exposed before God,
        and the place where destruction lies is uncovered in His presence.
⁷     He stretches out the northern sky over vast reaches of emptiness;
        He hangs the earth itself on nothing.
⁸     He binds up the waters into His clouds,
        but the cloud does not burst from the strain.
⁹     He conceals the sight of His throne
        and spreads His clouds over it to hide it from view.
¹⁰     He has encircled the waters with a horizon-boundary:
        the line between day and night, light and darkness.
¹¹     The very pillars that hold up the sky quake
        and are astounded by His reprisals.
¹²     By His power, He stilled the sea, quelling the chaos;
        by His wisdom, He pierced Rahab, evil of the sea;
¹³     By His breath, the heavens are made beautifully clear;
        by His hand that ancient serpent—even as it attempted escape—is pierced through.
¹⁴     And all of this, all of these are the mere edges of His capabilities.
        We are privy to only a whisper of His power.
        Who then dares to claim understanding of His thunderous might?