Job 26 — English–Hebrew Parallel

1 Then Ayawab (Job) inah (answer / respond),

2 “How have you izar (helped) him who is without kach (strength / mighty / power)! How have you yashai (salvation) the zarawai (arm) that has no iz (strength / might / refuge)!

3 How have you counseled him who has no chakamah (wisdom), and rab (plentifully) yadai (declared) sound thawashayah (knowledge)!

4 To whom have you nagad (uttered) malayan (words)? Whose nashamah (breathing thing) yatzaa (go out / come out) forth from you?

5 “Those who are rapaa (deceased) chawal (tremble), those beneath the mayam (Waters) and all that live in them.

6 Shaawal (Sheol / afterlife) is irawam (naked) before Alahayam (), and Abaddon has no kasawath (covering).

7 He stretches out the tzapawan (north) over thahaw (formless) space, and thalah (hangs) the aratz (Earth/land) on balayamah (nothing).

8 He tzarar (binds) up the mayam (Waters) in his ib (thick) clouds, and the inan (cloud) is not baqai (burst) under them.

9 He encloses the panayam (face) of his kasaa (throne), and parashaz (spreads) his inan (cloud) on it.

10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the panay (face of), and to the confines of awar (light) and chashak (darkness).

11 The imawaday (pillars) of shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) rawap (tremble) and are thamah (astonished) at his gairah (rebuke).

12 He stirs up the yam (sea/waters) with his kach (strength / mighty / power), and by his thabawan (understanding) he machatz (crush / shatter) through rahab (rahab).

13 By his rawach (spirit / wind) the shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) are shaparah (garnished). His yad (hand) has pierced the swift nachash (serpent).

14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his darak (ways). How small a whisper do we shamai (hearken / hear) of him! But the raim (thunder) of his gabawarah (power) who can bayan (between)?”