Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable
1 Then Job answered and said:
2 "How you have Isa. 40:29helped him who has no power!
How you have saved Gen. 49:24;Hos. 7:15the arm that has no strength!
3 How you have Ps. 73:24;James 1:5counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose breath Gen. 2:7has come out from you?
5 The Ps. 88:10dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
6 Sheol is Ps. 139:8;Prov. 15:11naked before God,26:6 Hebrew him
and Rev. 9:11Abaddon has no covering.
7 He See ch. 9:8stretches out the north over [Gen. 1:2]the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He Prov. 30:4binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not split open under them.
9 He covers the face of the full moon26:9 Or his throne
and [ch. 36:29]spreads over it his cloud.
10 He has inscribed Prov. 8:29;[ch. 38:8-11;Ps. 33:7;Jer. 5:22]a circle on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 ch. 9:6;Ps. 75:3The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astounded at his Ps. 104:7rebuke.
12 By his power he Isa. 51:15;Jer. 31:35stilled the sea;
by his understanding he shattered See ch. 9:13Rahab.
13 [Ps. 33:6] By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand pierced Isa. 27:1the fleeing serpent.
14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ch. 40:19ways,
and how small ch. 4:12a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?"