Job 26

1Then Job answered:

2“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!

3How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

4To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

5The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

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

7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

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

9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

10He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

11The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

12By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

13By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

1Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

3For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.

4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

5I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

7to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

8O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

10in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

11But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

12My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.