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title: "Job 26 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Job declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God. Job 26 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 26

Job 26 is chapter 26 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 26 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then Job responded by saying:
2. Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong?
3. To whom have you given advice? Perhaps it is to him that has no wisdom or prudence that you have revealed your many ideas.
4. Who is it that you wanted to teach? Was it not him that created the breath of life?
5. Behold, giant things groan under the waters, and they dwell with them.
6. The underworld is naked before him, and there is no covering for perdition.
7. He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.
8. He secures the waters in his clouds, so that they do not burst forth downward all at once.
9. He holds back the face of his throne, and he stretches his cloud over it.
10. He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit.
11. The pillars of heaven tremble and are frightened at his nod.
12. By his strength, the seas suddenly gather together, and his foresight has struck the arrogant.
13. His spirit has adorned the heavens, and his birthing hand has brought forth the winding serpent.
14. Behold, these things have been said about his ways in part, and, since we barely have heard a small drop of his word, who will be able to gaze upon the thunder of his greatness?

## Job 26 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Job dixit:
2. Cujus adjutor es? numquid imbecillis? et sustentas brachium ejus qui non est fortis?
3. Cui dedisti consilium? forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam: et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam.
4. Quem docere voluisti? nonne eum qui fecit spiramentum?
5. Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis, et qui habitant cum eis.
6. Nudus est infernus coram illo, et nullum est operimentum perditioni.
7. Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terram super nihilum.
8. Qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis, ut non erumpant pariter deorsum.
9. Qui tenet vultum solii sui, et expandit super illud nebulam suam.
10. Terminum circumdedit aquis, usque dum finiantur lux et tenebræ.
11. Columnæ cæli contremiscunt, et pavent ad nutum ejus.
12. In fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt, et prudentia ejus percussit superbum.
13. Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos, et obstetricante manu ejus, eductus est coluber tortuosus.
14. Ecce hæc ex parte dicta sunt viarum ejus: et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis ejus audierimus, quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri?

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 13: That is, the omnipotent power of God: which brought forth all things created in time, but conceived in the Divine mind from all eternity. The winding serpent, a constellation of fixed stars winding round the north pole, called Draco. This appears from the foregoing part of the same verse, His spirit hath adorned the heavens.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).