1 Then Job made answer and said,

2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

1 Job prit la parole, et dit:

2 Comme tu as aidé celui qui était sans force! Comme tu as secouru le bras sans vigueur!

3 Comme tu as bien conseillé l'homme sans raison, et fait paraître l'abondance de ta sagesse!

4 A qui as-tu adressé des discours? Et de qui est l'esprit qui est sorti de toi?

5 Les ombres tremblent au-dessous des eaux et de leurs habitants.

6 Le Sépulcre est à nu devant lui, et l'abîme est sans voile.

7 Il étend le septentrion sur le vide, il suspend la terre sur le néant.

8 Il renferme les eaux dans ses nuages, et la nuée n'éclate pas sous leur poids.

9 Il couvre la face de son trône, il étend sa nuée par-dessus.

10 Il décrit un cercle sur les eaux, au point où la lumière confine avec les ténèbres.

11 Les colonnes des cieux sont ébranlées, et s'étonnent à sa menace.

12 Par sa force, il soulève la mer; et par son habileté, il écrase les plus puissants rebelles.

13 Il a orné les cieux par son Esprit; sa main perce le dragon fugitif.

14 Ce ne sont là que les bords de ses voies; qu'il est faible le bruit qu'en saisit notre oreille! Et qui pourra entendre le tonnerre de sa puissance?