| 1 Then Job replied: |
| 2 "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! |
| 3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed! |
| 4 Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth? |
| 5 "The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. |
| 6 Death is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered. |
| 7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. |
| 8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. |
| 9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. |
| 10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness. |
| 11 The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke. |
| 12 By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces. |
| 13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent. |
| 14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?" |
