1Then Job answered:
2How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak!
3How you have counseled the unwise and thoroughly explained [the path to] success!
4Who did you speak these words to? Whose breath came out of your [mouth]?
5The departed spirits tremble beneath the waters and [all] that inhabit them.
6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7He stretches the northern [skies] over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
8He enfolds the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.
9He obscures the view of [His] throne, spreading His cloud over it.
10He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11The pillars [that hold up] the sky tremble, astounded at His rebuke.
12By His power He stirred the sea, and by His understanding He crushed Rahab.
13By His breath the heavens gained their beauty; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14These are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the word we hear of Him! Who can understand His mighty thunder?