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Job speaks beneath suspended earth, storm clouds, a divided sea, and trembling pillars of heaven while deep darkness opens below.
KING JAMES VERSION

JOB 26

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Job 26 — Job answers with a majestic catalogue of divine power over the dead, the heavens, clouds, sea, and cosmic boundaries.

About this illustration

The chapter’s ancient cosmic poetry becomes a symbolic panorama, not a scientific diagram. Rahab and the piercing of the fleeing serpent are kept abstract to avoid settling debated imagery.

Scripture basis: Job 26:1–14
  1. 1But Job answered and said,
  2. 2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
  3. 3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
  4. 4To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
  5. 5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
  6. 6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
  7. 7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
  8. 8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
  9. 9He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
  10. 10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
  11. 11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
  12. 12He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
  13. 13By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
  14. 14Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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