Job 26:12
New International Version
By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

New Living Translation
By his power the sea grew calm. By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.

English Standard Version
By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

Berean Standard Bible
By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

King James Bible
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

New King James Version
He stirs up the sea with His power, And by His understanding He breaks up the storm.

New American Standard Bible
“With His power He quieted the sea, And by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

NASB 1995
“He quieted the sea with His power, And by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

NASB 1977
“He quieted the sea with His power, And by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

Legacy Standard Bible
He quieted the sea with His power, And by His understanding He crushed Rahab.

Amplified Bible
“He stirred up the sea by His power, And by His understanding He smashed [proud] Rahab.

Christian Standard Bible
By his power he stirred the sea, and by his understanding he crushed Rahab.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
By His power He stirred the sea, and by His understanding He crushed Rahab.

American Standard Version
He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
By his power he rebukes the sea and in his wisdom he gives life to the multitude

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.

Contemporary English Version
By his power and wisdom, God conquered the force of the mighty ocean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his wisdom has struck the proud one.

English Revised Version
He stirreth up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
With his power he calmed the sea. With his insight he killed Rahab [the sea monster].

Good News Translation
It is his strength that conquered the sea; by his skill he destroyed the monster Rahab.

International Standard Version
By his power he disturbs the sea; and with his skill he shatters the sea monster.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He stirreth up the sea with His power, And by His understanding He smiteth through Rahab.

Literal Standard Version
By His power He has quieted the sea, | And by His understanding struck the proud.

Majority Standard Bible
By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

New American Bible
By his power he stilled Sea, by his skill he crushed Rahab;

NET Bible
By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

New Revised Standard Version
By his power he stilled the Sea; by his understanding he struck down Rahab.

New Heart English Bible
He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

Webster's Bible Translation
He divideth the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

World English Bible
He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

Young's Literal Translation
By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud.

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Context
Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?
11The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke. 12By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab. 13By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.…

Cross References
Job 9:13
God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

Job 12:13
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

Job 26:11
The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.

Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Isaiah 51:15
For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD of Hosts is His name:


Treasury of Scripture

He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.

divideth

Exodus 14:21
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Psalm 29:10
The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

Psalm 74:13
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

he smiteth

Job 40:11,12
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him…

Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Daniel 4:37
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

the proud.

Psalm 89:9,10
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them…

Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

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Job 26
1. Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad
5. acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable














(12) He divideth the sea.--The word is taken in the two opposite senses of stirring up and calming; perhaps the latter is more appropriate to the context, which seems to speak of God's mastery over nature.

By his understanding he smiteth through the proud.--Literally, Rahab, which certainly is at times a name for Egypt (see Isaiah 51:9, e.g.), and which, if used in that sense here, can only refer to the signal judgments on Egypt at the Exodus. According to our view of this matter will be the indication derived therefrom of the date of Job.

Verse 12. - He divideth the sea with his power. "Divideth" is certainly a wrong translation. The verb used (־ָגַע) means either "stirreth up" or "stilleth." In favour of the former rendering are Rosen-muller, Schultens, Delitzsch, Merx, and Canon Cook; in favour of the latter, the LXX., Dillmann, and Dr. Stanley Leathes. In either case the general sentiment is that God has full mastery over the sea, and can regulate its movements at his pleasure. And by his understanding he smiteth through the proud; literally, he smiteth through Rahab. (On Rahab, as the great power of evil, see the comment on Job 9:13.) God is said to have "smitten him through by his understanding" since in the contest between good and evil it is rather intelligence than mere force that carries the day. Power alone is sufficient to control the sea.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
By His power
בְּ֭כֹחוֹ (bə·ḵō·ḥōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

He stilled
רָגַ֣ע (rā·ḡa‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7280: To toss violently and suddenly, to settle, quiet, to wink

the sea,
הַיָּ֑ם (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

and by His understanding
וּ֝בִתְבוּנָת֗וֹ (ū·ḇiṯ·ḇū·nā·ṯōw)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice

He shattered
מָ֣חַץ (mā·ḥaṣ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4272: To dash asunder, to crush, smash, violently plunge, to subdue, destroy

Rahab.
רָֽהַב׃ (rā·haḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7293: Rahab -- 'storm', a sea monster


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