Lectionary Calendar
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
Attention!

Read the Bible

New International Version

Job 26

   |   

Job

1 Then Job replied:

2 "How you have helped the powerless!(a)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!(b)
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight(c) you have displayed!
4 Who 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.
6 The realm of the dead(f) is naked before God;
    Destruction[a](g) lies uncovered.(h)
7 He spreads out the northern skies(i) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.(j)
8 He wraps up the waters(k) in his clouds,(l)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading his clouds(m) over it.
10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters(n)
    for a boundary between light and darkness.(o)
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,(p)
    aghast at his rebuke.
12 By his power he churned up the sea;(q)
    by his wisdom(r) he cut Rahab(s) to pieces.
13 By his breath the skies(t) became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.(u)
14 And 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)

adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile