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 out of you? ⁵“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. ⁶Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon 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?”