^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. Death [2] is naked before God; Destruction [1] 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?"