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 Resposta de Job:
2 Vocês não sabem consolar uma pessoa! Não trouxeram nenhum encorajamento ao meu abatimento!
3 Em nada esclareceram a minha ignorância! Disseram aí coisas até sem sabedoria nenhuma!
4 Como foi que puderam sair coisas tão brilhantesdos vossos cérebros?
5 Deus faz os mortos apresentarem-se tal qual são,lá no lugar para onde vão.
7 Ele estende o firmamento sobre os espaços infinitos,e suspende a Terra sobre o nada.
8 Acumula a chuva nas espessas nuvens,sem que estas se ressintam de tal peso.
9 Envolve nelas o seu trono.
10 Estabelece limites aos oceanos,sim, uma barreira constante, tanto de dia como de noite.
11 As estruturas do firmamento tremem perante uma ameaça sua.
12 Pela sua força fez sossegar o monstro; é pela sua inteligência que os oceanos abatem o orgulho que os agita!
13 A beleza dos céus foi-lhes dada pelo seu sopro. Foi também a sua mão que formou a serpente ondulante.
14 E estas são apenas algumas poucas coisas que ele fez,é apenas um vislumbre do seu poder. Quem pode, igualmente, enfrentar o seu trovão?