Job 25 - 26

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 2

“Rule and dread belong to Him

Who makes peace in His heights.

Is there any number to His troops?

And upon whom does His light not rise?

How then can mortal man be right with God?

Or how can he be pure who is born of woman?

Behold even the moon has no brightness,

And the stars are not pure in His sight;

How much less mortal man, that maggot,

And the son of man, that worm!”

Then Job answered and said, 2

“What a help you are to the one without power!

How you have saved the arm without strength!

What counsel you have given to one without wisdom!

What sound wisdom you have abundantly made known!

To whom have you declared words?

And whose breath comes out from you?

“The departed spirits tremble

Under the waters and their inhabitants.

Naked is Sheol before Him,

And Abaddon has no covering.

He stretches out the north over what is formless

And hangs the earth on nothing.

He wraps up the waters in His clouds,

And the cloud does not break out under them.

He obscures the face of His throne

And spreads His cloud over it.

He has marked a circle on the surface of the waters

At the boundary of light and darkness.

The pillars of heaven tremble

And are astonished at His rebuke.

He quieted the sea with His power,

And by His understanding He crushed Rahab.

By His breath the heavens are made beautiful;

His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.

Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;

And how only with a whisper of a word do we hear of Him!

But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”