1 B ut Job answered,

And Job answered and said,

2 H ow you have helped him who is without power! How you have sustained the arm that is without strength!

How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!

3 H ow you have counseled him who has no wisdom! And how plentifully you have declared to him sound knowledge!

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

4 W ith whose assistance have you uttered these words? And whose spirit came forth from you?

For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

5 T he shades of the dead tremble underneath the waters and their inhabitants.

The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;

6 S heol (the place of the dead) is naked before God, and Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering.

Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

7 H e it is Who spreads out the northern skies over emptiness and hangs the earth upon or over nothing.

He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

8 H e holds the waters bound in His clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

9 H e covers the face of His throne and spreads over it His cloud.

He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it.

10 H e has placed an enclosing limit upon the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

11 T he pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at His rebuke.

The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

12 H e stills or stirs up the sea by His power, and by His understanding He smites proud Rahab.

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

13 B y His breath the heavens are garnished; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent.

14 Y et these are but the outskirts of His ways or the mere fringes of His force, the faintest whisper of His voice! Who dares contemplate or who can understand the thunders of His full, magnificent power?

Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?