[1] But Job answered and said, [2] “What a help you are to the weak (powerless)! How you have saved the arm that is without strength! [3] How you have counseled the one who has no wisdom! And how abundantly you have provided sound wisdom and helpful insight! [4] To whom have you uttered [these] words? And whose spirit [inspired what] came forth from you? [5] “The spirits of the dead tremble Underneath the waters and their inhabitants. [6] Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God, And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes]. [7] It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness And hangs the earth on nothing. [8] He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once], And the cloud does not burst under them. [9] He covers the face of the full moon And spreads His cloud over it. [10] He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters At the boundary between light and darkness. [11] The pillars of the heavens tremble And are terrified at His rebuke. [12] He stirred up the sea by His power, And by His understanding He smashed [proud] Rahab. [13] By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent. [14] Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power], The faintest whisper of His voice! Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”
