26:1 Then Job answered and said:

  “How you have helped him who has no power!
    How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
  How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,
    and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
  With whose help have you uttered words,
    and whose breath has come out from you?
  The dead tremble
    under the waters and their inhabitants.
  Sheol is naked before God,
    and Abaddon has no covering.
  He stretches out the north over the void
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
  He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
    and the cloud is not split open under them.
  He covers the face of the full moon
    and spreads over it his cloud.
  He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters
    at the boundary between light and darkness.
  The pillars of heaven tremble
    and are astounded at his rebuke.
  By his power he stilled the sea;
    by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
  By his wind the heavens were made fair;
    his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
  Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,
    and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
    But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

27:1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

  “As God lives, who has taken away my right,
    and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
  as long as my breath is in me,
    and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
  my lips will not speak falsehood,
    and my tongue will not utter deceit.
  Far be it from me to say that you are right;
    till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
  I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
    my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
  “Let my enemy be as the wicked,
    and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
  For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off,
    when God takes away his life?
  Will God hear his cry
    when distress comes upon him?
  Will he take delight in the Almighty?
    Will he call upon God at all times?

  “From where, then, does wisdom come?
    And where is the place of understanding?
  It is hidden from the eyes of all living
    and concealed from the birds of the air.
  Abaddon and Death say,
    ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
  “God understands the way to it,
    and he knows its place.
  For he looks to the ends of the earth
    and sees everything under the heavens.
  When he gave to the wind its weight
    and apportioned the waters by measure,
  when he made a decree for the rain
    and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
  then he saw it and declared it;
    he established it, and searched it out.
  And he said to man,
  ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
    and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”