Job 26

Contemporary English Version

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.^[a]
13 The heavens became bright
    when he breathed,
and the escaping sea monster^[b]
    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!