1 Then Job answered and said:

2 "How you have *Isa. 40:29helped him who has no power!

How you have saved *Gen. 49:24;Hos. 7:15the arm that has no strength!

3 How you have *Ps. 73:24;James 1:5counseled him who has no wisdom,

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

4 With whose help have you uttered words,

and whose breath *Gen. 2:7has come out from you?

5 The *Ps. 88:10dead tremble

under the waters and their inhabitants.

6 Sheol is *Ps. 139:8;Prov. 15:11naked before God,*26:6 Hebrew him

and *Rev. 9:11Abaddon has no covering.

7 He *See ch. 9:8stretches out the north over *[Gen. 1:2]the void

and hangs the earth on nothing.

8 He *Prov. 30:4binds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not split open under them.

9 He covers the face of the full moon*26:9 Or his throne

and *[ch. 36:29]spreads over it his cloud.

10 He has inscribed *Prov. 8:29;[ch. 38:8-11;Ps. 33:7;Jer. 5:22]a circle on the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

11 *ch. 9:6;Ps. 75:3The pillars of heaven tremble

and are astounded at his *Ps. 104:7rebuke.

12 By his power he *Isa. 51:15;Jer. 31:35stilled the sea;

by his understanding he shattered *See ch. 9:13Rahab.

13 *[Ps. 33:6] By his wind the heavens were made fair;

his hand pierced *Isa. 27:1the fleeing serpent.

14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his *ch. 40:19ways,

and how small *ch. 4:12a whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?"