¹Then Iyov replied,

²“What great help you bring to the powerless!

what deliverance to the arm without strength!

³Such wonderful advice for a man lacking wisdom!

So much common sense you’ve expressed!

⁴Who helped you to say these words?

Whose spirit is it, coming forth from you?

⁵“The ghosts of the dead tremble

beneath the water, with its creatures.

⁶Sh’ol is naked before him;

Abaddon lies uncovered.

⁷He stretches the north over chaos

and suspends the earth on nothing.

⁸He binds up the water in his thick clouds,

yet no cloud is torn apart by it.

⁹He shuts off the view of his throne

by spreading his cloud across it.

¹⁰He fixed a circle on the surface of the water,

defining the boundary between light and dark.

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble,

aghast at his rebuke.

¹²He stirs up the sea with his power,

and by his skill he strikes down Rahav.

¹³With his Spirit he spreads the heavens;

his hand pierces the fleeing serpent.

¹⁴And these are but the fringes of his ways;

how faint the echo we hear of him!

But who is able to grasp the meaning

of his thundering power?”