| | 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?" | |
