- 1Then Job answered,
- 2“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
- 3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
- 4To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
- 5“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
- 6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- 7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
- 8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
- 9He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
- 10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
- 11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
- 12He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
- 13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
- 14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”