Then Ayub1 answered,
2“How have you helped him who is without power!
How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,
And plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4To whom have you uttered words?
Whose spirit came forth from you?
5“Those who are deceased tremble,
Those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6The grave2 is naked before God,
And Abaddon3 has no covering.
7He stretches out the north over empty space,
And hangs the earth on nothing.
8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
And the cloud is not burst under them.
9He encloses the face of his throne,
And spreads his cloud on it.
10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,
And to the confines of light and darkness.
11The pillars of heaven tremble
And are astonished at his rebuke.
12He stirs up the sea with his power,
And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
13By his Spirit4 the heavens are garnished.
His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.
How small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
- 26:1 Ayub, this Arabic name and the English name Job are derived from the Hebrew name Iyyob, which means “persecuted.” ↩︎
- 26:6 Hebrew Sheol. This is the lower world or the grave. ↩︎
- 26:6 Abaddon means Destroyer. ↩︎
- 26:13 Spirit, or Spirit of God; not an angel, created being, nor an impersonal force, but the uncreated, eternal essence of God himself. The Spirit was present and active at the creation of heaven and earth (see Genesis 1:2). He is also the one who moved the prophets to speak God’s Word to mankind (see 2 Peter 1:21). The Spirit also lives inside of every follower of ‘ISA AL-MASIH, empowering them to live in a way pleasing to God (see 1 Corinthians 3:16). ↩︎