Job 26 (A Chapter a Day)

Job

¹ Then Job replied:² “How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

³ What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed!

⁴ Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

⁵ “The dead are in deep anguish,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

⁶ Death ^[a] is naked before God;
Destruction ^[b] lies uncovered.

⁷ He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.

⁸ He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading his clouds over it.

¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for a boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹ The pillars of the heavens quake,
aghast at his rebuke.

¹² By his power he churned up the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

¹³ By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

¹⁴ And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”

Job 25 (A Chapter a Day)

Bildad

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:² “Dominion and awe belong to God;
he establishes order in the heights of heaven.

³ Can his forces be numbered?
Upon whom does his light not rise?

⁴ How then can a man be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?

⁵ If even the moon is not bright
and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

⁶ how much less man, who is but a maggot—
a son of man, who is only a worm!”