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 约伯回答说：
2 "无能力的， 你怎样帮助他， 膀臂无力的， 你怎样拯救他！
3 无智慧的， 你怎样教导他， 显明你丰盛的智慧！
4 你靠谁发言呢？谁的灵从你而出呢？
5 阴魂和在水中居住的， 都在水下痛苦不堪。
6 阴间在 神面前赤露敞开， 灭亡之处也没有遮盖。
7 他把北极铺在空间， 把地球挂在太空。
8 他把水包在密云中， 水下面的云却不破裂。
9 他遮蔽自己宝座的正面， 把云铺在上面。
10 在水面划出界限， 直到光与暗的交界。
11 天的柱子都因他的斥责震动惊奇；
12 他以能力搅动大海， 以聪明击伤拉哈伯。
13 他以自己的气使天晴朗， 他的手刺穿逃跑的蛇。
14 这些不过是他的作为的一点点， 我们从他那里所听到的， 是多么的微小！ 他大能的雷声谁能够明白呢？"