Job 26 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 26:2, 26:3
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Chapter 26
Job answers with the reaches of divine power
Source chapters: [BHS26] Hebrew; [LXX26] Greek.
Verse 26:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:1 Job answered and said:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:1 Then Job replied:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both introduce Job’s answer.
Verse 26:2 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:2 “How you have helped one without strength,
saved an arm without power!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:2 “To whom do you attach yourself, or whom are you about to help?
Is it not the One with great strength and a mighty arm?
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew ironically asks about helping the powerless; Greek identifies the proposed recipient as already mighty, provisionally God.
Verse 26:3 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:3 How you have advised one without wisdom
and made sound judgment abundantly known!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:3 Whom have you advised? Is it not the One with all wisdom?
Or whom will you follow? Is it not the One with the greatest power?
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek all-wise and all-powerful recipient differs from Hebrew the one without wisdom, and adds a question about following.
Verse 26:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:4 To whom have you declared words,
and whose breath has gone out from you?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:4 To whom did you announce words?
And whose is the breath that came out of you?
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both ask about the recipient and source of speech.
Verse 26:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:5 The shades writhe beneath the waters
and their inhabitants.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:5 Will giants be brought to birth
beneath water and its neighbors?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek giants being delivered in birth differ from Hebrew shades writhing. Greek water’s neighbors and Hebrew its inhabitants preserve the compressed spatial wording.
Verse 26:6 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:6 Sheol is naked before Him,
and Abaddon has no covering.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:6 Hades is naked before Him,
and destruction has no covering.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Sheol and Abaddon correspond here to Greek Hades and destruction as exposed realms.
Verse 26:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:7 He stretches the north over emptiness
and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:7 He stretches the north over nothing
and hangs the earth upon nothing,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both use poetic cosmological imagery; no modern scientific account is imposed.
Verse 26:8 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:8 He binds waters in His clouds,
and the cloud does not split beneath them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:8 binding water in His clouds,
and no cloud burst beneath it.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both describe clouds containing water.
Verse 26:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:9 He encloses the face of the throne,
spreading His cloud over it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:9 He holds the face of a throne,
spreading His cloud over it.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew’s rare form is provisionally throne; Greek explicitly has thronos. The precise image of holding or concealing its face remains compressed.
Verse 26:10 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:10 He draws a circular boundary upon the waters’ face,
at the limit of light with darkness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:10 He circled a command upon the waters’ face,
until the completion of light with darkness.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek command corresponds to Hebrew appointed boundary; both have an ambiguous limit or completion expression.
Verse 26:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astonished at His rebuke.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:11 The pillars of heaven were spread out
and were astonished at His rebuke.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek were spread out differs from Hebrew trembling.
Verse 26:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:12 By His strength He stirred the sea,
and by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:12 By strength He calmed the sea,
and by knowledge He wounded the great sea creature.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew raga can denote agitation or stilling, here provisionally stirred; Greek explicitly calms. Rahab corresponds to an unnamed Greek sea creature.
Verse 26:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:13 By His breath the heavens are made fair;
His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:13 The bars of heaven have feared Him,
and by a command He killed the rebellious dragon.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek fearful heavenly bars replace Hebrew fair skies; command and killed rebel differ from hand and pierced fleeing serpent.
Verse 26:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
26:14 Look, these are the edges of His ways,
and how faint a whisper of a word we hear of Him!
But who can understand the thunder of His mighty deeds?”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
26:14 Look, these are parts of His way,
and we will hear a mere drop of speech concerning Him.
But the strength of His thunder—who knows when He will act?”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds when He will act and uses a drop or moisture image for the faint report; Hebrew asks understanding of mighty thunder.