Job 26

New International Version

Job

26 Then Job replied:

²“How you have helped the powerless!^(A)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^(B)
³What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight^(C) you have displayed!
⁴Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?^(D)

⁵“The dead are in deep anguish,^(E)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
⁶The realm of the dead^(F) is naked before God;
    Destruction^[a]^(G) lies uncovered.^(H)
⁷He spreads out the northern skies^(I) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.^(J)
⁸He wraps up the waters^(K) in his clouds,^(L)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
⁹He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading his clouds^(M) over it.
¹⁰He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters^(N)
    for a boundary between light and darkness.^(O)
¹¹The pillars of the heavens quake,^(P)
    aghast at his rebuke.
¹²By his power he churned up the sea;^(Q)
    by his wisdom^(R) he cut Rahab^(S) to pieces.
¹³By his breath the skies^(T) became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.^(U)
¹⁴And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper^(V) we hear of him!^(W)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”^(X)

Footnotes

Job 26:6 Hebrew Abaddon

Acts 7:35-43

New International Version

³⁵“This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’^(A) He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶He led them out of Egypt^(B) and performed wonders and signs^(C) in Egypt, at the Red Sea^(D) and for forty years in the wilderness.^(E)

³⁷“This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’^[a]^(F) ³⁸He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel^(G) who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors;^(H) and he received living words^(I) to pass on to us.^(J)

³⁹“But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.^(K) ⁴⁰They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’^[b]^(L) ⁴¹That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made.^(M) ⁴²But God turned away from them^(N) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.^(O) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:

“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
    forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
⁴³You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
    and the star of your god Rephan,
    the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’^[c]^(P) beyond Babylon.