1 T hen Job answered,

2 “ How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

3 H ow have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

4 T o 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.

6 S heol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

7 H e stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

8 H e binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

9 H e encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

10 H e has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

11 T he pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

12 H e stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

13 B y his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

14 B ehold, 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?”