1 Then Job answered,
2 "How have you helped him who is without power!
How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 To whom have you uttered words?
Whose spirit came out of you?
5 "The departed spirits tremble,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 Sheol is naked before God,
and Abaddon has no covering.
7 He stretches out the north over empty space,
and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not burst under them.
9 He encloses the face of his throne,
and spreads his cloud on it.
10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,
and to the confines of light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astonished at his rebuke.
12 He stirs up the sea with his power,
and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.
His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.
How small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
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？"