Job 26

World English Bible

Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition

1Then Job answered,

1ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ Ἰὼβ λέγει·

2“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

2τίνι πρόσκεισαι ἢ τίνι μέλλεις βοηθεῖν; πότερον, οὐχ ᾧ πολλὴ ἰσχὺς καὶ ᾧ βραχίων κραταιός ἐστι;

3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

3τίνι συμβεβούλευσαι; οὐχ ᾧ πᾶσα σοφία; τίνι ἐπακολουθήσεις; οὐχ ᾧ μεγίστη δύναμις;

4To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

4τίνι ἀνήγγειλας ρήματα; πνοὴ δὲ τίνος ἐστὶν ἡ ἐλθοῦσα ἐκ σοῦ;

5“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

5μὴ γίγαντες μαιωθήσονται ὑποκάτωθεν ὕδατος καὶ τῶν γειτόνων αὐτοῦ;

6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

6γυμνὸς ὁ ᾅδης ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι περιβόλαιον τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ.

7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

7ἐκτείνων βορέαν ἐπ᾿ οὐδέν, κρεμάζων γῆν ἐπὶ οὐδενός·

8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

8δεσμεύων ὕδωρ ἐν νεφέλαις αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐρράγη νέφος ὑποκάτω αὐτοῦ·

9He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

9ὁ κρατῶν πρόσωπον θρόνου, ἐκπετάζων ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν νέφος αὐτοῦ.

10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

10πρόσταγμα ἐγύρωσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ὕδατος μέχρι συντελείας φωτὸς μετὰ σκότους.

11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

11στῦλοι οὐρανοῦ ἐπετάσθησαν καὶ ἐξέστησαν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπιτιμήσεως αὐτοῦ.

12He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

12ἰσχύϊ κατέπαυσε τὴν θάλασσαν, ἐπιστήμῃ δὲ ἔστρωσε τὸ κῆτος·

13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

13κλεῖθρα δὲ οὐρανοῦ δεδοίκασιν αὐτόν, προστάγματι δὲ ἐθανάτωσε δράκοντα ἀποστάτην.

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?”

14ἰδοὺ ταῦτα μέρη ὁδοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ ἰκμάδα λόγου ἀκουσόμεθα ἐν αὐτῷ· σθένος δὲ βροντῆς αὐτοῦ τίς οἶδεν ὁπότε ποιήσει;

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