1 Job said:

2 You have really been helpful

to someone weak and weary.

3 You have given great advice

and wonderful wisdom

to someone truly in need.

4 How can anyone possibly speak

with such understanding?

5 Remember the terrible trembling

of those in the world of the dead

below the mighty ocean.

6 Nothing in that land

of death and destruction

is hidden from God,

7 who hung the northern sky

and suspended the earth

on empty space.

8 God stores water in clouds,

but they don't burst,

9 and he wraps them around

the face of the moon.

10 On the surface of the ocean,

God has drawn a boundary line

between light and darkness.

11 And columns supporting the sky

tremble at his command.

12 By his power and wisdom,

God conquered the force

of the mighty ocean.*

13 The heavens became bright

when he breathed,

and the escaping sea monster*

died at his hands.

14 These things are merely a whisper

of God's power at work.

How little we would understand

if this whisper

ever turned into thunder!