Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom

Job chapter 26

Then Job answered: to the man with no power! What a rescue for !What advice you have given a man with no wisdom! What a flood of you have poured out!Who helped you get those words out? And was that, coming out of you? shudder down under the waters, and everything that lives down there with them. lies open and naked in front of him. has nothing to cover itself with.He stretches out over . He hangs the earth on nothing at all.He inside his clouds, and the cloud never splits under the weight.He shuts off the face of , drawing his cloud across it.He across the face of the water, right at the line where light gives out and dark begins. shake. One word of and they stand there stunned.With his own strength he . With his own understanding he broke to pieces. swept the sky clear and bright. His hand ran through.And look — these are only of what he does. is all we ever catch of him. The thunder of his full strength — who could stand to hear that?