¹Then Job answered,

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

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

• ⁴To whom have you uttered words?
• Whose spirit came forth from you?

• ⁵“Those who are deceased tremble,
• those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

• ⁶ Sheol *Sheol is the lower world or the grave. is naked before God,
• and Abaddon *Abaddon means Destroyer. has no covering.

• ⁷He stretches out the north over empty space,
• and hangs the earth on nothing.

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

• ⁹He encloses the face of his throne,
• and spreads his cloud on it.

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

• ¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble
• and are astonished at his rebuke.

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

• ¹³By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.
• His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

• ¹⁴Behold, 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?”