1 Then Job replied:2 "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!4 Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?5 "The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.6 The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction "lies uncovered.7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.11 The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.12 By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"

1 Respondens autem Job dixit : 2 [Cujus adjutor es ? numquid imbecillis ?et sustentas brachium ejus qui non est fortis ?3 Cui dedisti consilium ?forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam :et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam.4 Quem docere voluisti ?nonne eum qui fecit spiramentum ?5 Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis,et qui habitant cum eis.6 Nudus est infernus coram illo,et nullum est operimentum perditioni.7 Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum,et appendit terram super nihilum.8 Qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis,ut non erumpant pariter deorsum.9 Qui tenet vultum solii sui,et expandit super illud nebulam suam.10 Terminum circumdedit aquis,usque dum finiantur lux et tenebr.11 Column cli contremiscunt,et pavent ad nutum ejus.12 In fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt,et prudentia ejus percussit superbum.13 Spiritus ejus ornavit clos,et obstetricante manu ejus, eductus est coluber tortuosus.14 Ecce hc ex parte dicta sunt viarum ejus :et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis ejus audierimus,quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri ?]