1 Then Job answered and said:
2 "What help you have been to the powerless! What rescue for the arm without strength!
3 What advice you have given to the one who lacks wisdom, and what abundant insight you have displayed!
4 With whose help have you spoken these words, and whose breath has gone out from you?
5 The shades writhe below, beneath the waters and their inhabitants.
6 Sheol lies bare before him, and Abaddon has nothing to cover it.
7 He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing at all.
8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud does not burst beneath their weight.
9 He shuts off the view of his throne, spreading his cloud across it.
10 He has traced a circle on the surface of the waters, at the edge where light meets darkness.
11 The pillars of the heavens quake and are stunned at his rebuke.
12 With his power he stirred up the sea, and with his skill he shattered Rahab.
13 By his breath the skies were made clear; his hand ran through the fleeing serpent.
14 Look, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how faint a whisper is all we hear of him! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?"