Job 26

Job 26:2

How hast thou helped him that is without power? &c.

Oh what goodly help hast thou given to the Almighty! I wis he had not had power enough to right himself without thee; foolish man! that pleadest for God, as if he had need of thy patronage.

Job 26:5

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

What dost thou tell me of a Providence, ordering those heavenly bodies and motions? I know all this and more; and tell thee again, that the same Providence reacheth to all those obscure creatures, which are formed under the waters, and under the earth; so as they have not their being and continuance, but from him.

Job 26:6

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Yea, the very lowest part of the earth lies naked and open to his all-seeing eyes: he knows the places, and ways, and means of the dissolution, of all the creatures which he hath made.

Job 26:7

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

He hath spread out this glorious hemisphere of the heavens, upon the void and empty space of the light and thin air; and hangeth the great ball of the earth in the midst of heaven, without any prop or foundation. VOL. III. M

Job 26:9

He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

He hideth the face of heaven, which is his throne, from our sight; by spreading his thick clouds betwixt it and us.

Job 26:11

The pillars of the heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

The high mountains, upon which the heaven seems to rest as so many pillars, tremble and shake with his earthquakes.

Job 26:13

His hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

His hand hath made the huge and mighty whale in the waters, and the monstrous and dreadful serpent on the land.