¹Then Job answered and said,

²“How have you helped him

Who is without power,

And saved him

Whose arm is without strength?

³How have you given counsel to him

Who is without wisdom?

And how have you taught insight

To the multitude?

⁴To whom have you declared words,

And whose inspiration came from you?

⁵Do the Rephaim give birth under water,

Or do those who lie there with them?

⁶The grave is naked before him,

And there is no covering for the place of destruction.

⁷He stretches out the north over desolation,

And hangs the earth on nothing,

⁸Binding up waters on his thick clouds,

While the cloud below them is not laid open.

⁹He takes hold of the front of his throne

And spreads his cloud on it.

¹⁰He circumscribes a bound round the surface of the water

At the terminator between light and dark.

¹¹The pillars of heaven are shaken

And are astonished at his rebuke.

¹²By his power the sea roars,

And by his understanding

He dashes pride.

¹³By his spirit the heavens are beautifully made;

His hand formed the constellation of the fleeing serpent.

¹⁴Behold, these are the outlines of his ways,

For only a whisper of the matter is heard,

But who can understand the thunder of his power?”