[1] Then Job answered: [2] How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak! [3] How you have counseled the unwise and abundantly provided insight! [4] With whom did you speak these words? Whose breath came out of your mouth? [5] The departed spirits tremble beneath the waters and all that inhabit them. [6] Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. [7] He stretches the northern skies over empty space; he hangs the earth on nothing. [8] He wraps up the water in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst beneath its weight. [9] He obscures the view of his throne, spreading his cloud over it. [10] He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. [11] The pillars that hold up the sky tremble, astounded at his rebuke. [12] By his power he stirred the sea, and by his understanding he crushed Rahab. [13] By his breath the heavens gained their beauty; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. [14] These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?
