1   Then Job answered:

2   What help you have given to the man without resource,
what deliverance you have brought to the powerless!
3   What counsel you offer to a man at his wit's end,
what sound advice to the foolish!
4   Who has prompted you to say such things,
and whose spirit is expressed in your speech?


5   In the underworld the shades writhe in fear,
the waters and all that live in them are struck with terror. ^note
6   Sheol is laid bare,
and Abaddon uncovered before him.
7   God spreads the canopy of the sky over chaos
and suspends earth in the void.
8   He keeps the waters penned in dense cloud-masses,
and the clouds do not burst open under their weight.
9   He covers the face of the full moon, ^note
unrolling his clouds across it.
10   He has fixed the horizon on the surface of the waters
at the farthest limit of light and darkness.
11   The pillars of heaven quake
and are aghast at his rebuke.
12   With his strong arm he cleft the sea-monster,
and struck down the Rahab by his skill.
13   At his breath the skies are clear,
and his hand breaks the twisting ^note sea-serpent.
14   These are but the fringe of his power;
and how faint the whisper that we hear of him!
[Who could fathom the thunder of his might?]

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