Job's Reply to Bildad
You Have Really Been Helpful
1 Job said:
2 You have really been helpful
to someone weak and weary.
3 You have given great advice
and wonderful wisdom
to someone truly in need.
4 How can anyone possibly speak
with such understanding?
5 Remember the terrible trembling
of those in the world of the dead
below the mighty ocean.
6 Nothing in that land
of death and destruction
is hidden from God,
7 who hung the northern sky
and suspended the earth
on empty space.
8 God stores water in clouds,
but they don't burst,
9 and he wraps them around
the face of the moon.
10 On the surface of the ocean,
God has drawn a boundary line
between light and darkness.
11 And columns supporting the sky
tremble at his command.
12 By his power and wisdom,
God conquered the force
of the mighty ocean.
13 The heavens became bright
when he breathed,
and the escaping sea monster
died at his hands.
14 These things are merely a whisper
of God's power at work.
How little we would understand
if this whisper
ever turned into thunder!
1 Bvt Iob answered, and sayde, 2 Whom helpest thou? him that hath no power? sauest thou the arme that hath no strength? 3 Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is. 4 To whom doest thou declare these words? or whose spirit commeth out of thee? 5 The dead things are formed vnder the waters, and neere vnto them. 6 The graue is naked before him, and there is no couering for destruction. 7 He stretcheth out the North ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing. 8 He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them. 9 He holdeth backe the face of his throne: and spreadeth his cloude vpon it. 10 He hath set bounds about the waters, vntil the day and night come to an ende. 11 The pillars of heauen tremble and quake at his reproofe. 12 The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof. 13 His Spirite hath garnished the heauens, and his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. 14 Loe, these are part of his wayes: but how litle a portion heare we of him? and who can vnderstand his fearefull power?